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I am trying to install git-lfs package and it looks like expected paths are not Ubuntu friendly. From Downloads section of git-lfs I choose Linux AMD64 file name git-lfs-freebsd-amd64-1.2.1.tar.gz, because .deb files are not available for Ubuntu, just Debian 7,8.

I am getting error: install.sh: 19: install.sh: PATH+=:/usr/local/bin: not found when executing install.sh.

Does anyone have a working solution on how to install git-lfs?

Mike
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    This link could be helpful if you didn't try it yet: https://help.github.com/articles/installing-git-large-file-storage/ – Adnan Jul 16 '16 at 13:36
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    I am actually using that same manual to install, I am stuck on the step number 3. – Mike Jul 16 '16 at 13:49
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    could you specify where the problem is ? like what's wrong in that step – Adnan Jul 16 '16 at 14:10
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    Thank you, I found my problem, I was getting install error mentioned in my question because of using wrong interpreter. One would expect .sh to work with sh. – Mike Jul 16 '16 at 17:46
  • The link above to help.github.com is MS Windows-specific. It does not work for Linux or other Operating Systems. – Dan Anderson Jul 21 '22 at 22:43

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There are in fact .deb files at https://packagecloud.io/github/git-lfs?filter=debs that you can install; the link you visited also hinted at this by stating that "All packages are available on PackageCloud now."

In any case, if you visit https://git-lfs.github.com/, the simplest way to install git-lfs is to follow the instructions at https://packagecloud.io/github/git-lfs/install:

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

Then, according to https://github.com/github/git-lfs/blob/master/INSTALLING.md#installing-packages, do

sudo apt-get install git-lfs

If you don't trust the source of script.deb.sh and are uncomfortable with running the script with sudo bash, you should definitely take a look at the script first.

edwinksl
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If anybody finds this thread from Google and is on a modern Ubuntu build (at least 21.04+), simply do sudo apt install git-lfs

Dr-Bracket
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I was looking for a way to install entirely from the command line (server/VM setup), and was able to do so by following the instructions from the documentation, copied below for reference.

  1. sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
  2. sudo curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash*
  3. sudo apt-get install git-lfs
  4. git lfs install

*The sudo in step 2 is my addition, and without it this step was failing silently. Maybe to do with my user permissions on the server? ymmv

ess
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  • The documentation link has the latest curls - https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Installation#ubuntu – phil Feb 22 '21 at 17:42
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I found my solution, the problem was executing install.sh using sh:

The correct way is sudo ./install.sh or sudo bash install.sh instead of sh install.sh.

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Mike
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