packagecloud hosts git-lfs packages for popular Linux distributions with Apt/deb and Yum/rpm based package-managers. Installing from packagecloud is reasonably straightforward and involves:
- Adding the packagecloud repo that best matches your Linux distribution and version, then
- Running your package-manager's install command
packagecloud provides scripts to automate the process of configuring the package repository on your system, importing signing-keys etc. These scripts must be run sudo root, and you should review them first. The scripts are:
- Apt/deb repositories: https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh
- Yum/rpm repositories: https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.rpm.sh
The scripts check your Linux distribution and version, and use those parameters to create the best repository URL. If you are running one of the distributions listed for the latest version of Git LFS listed at packagecloud e.g debian/jessie, el/7, you can run the script without parameters:
Apt/deb repos:
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
Yum/rpm repos:
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
If you are running a distribution which does not match exactly a repository uploaded for Git LFS, but for which there is a repository for a compatible upstream distribution, you can either run the script with some additional parameters, or run it and then manually-correct the resulting repository URLs. See #1074 for details.
If you are running LinuxMint 17.1 Rebecca, which is downstream of Ubuntu Trusty and Debian Jessie, you can run:
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | os=debian dist=jessie sudo -E sudo bash
The os and dist variables passed-in will override what would be detected for your system and force the selection of the upstream distribution's repository.
With the packagecloud repository configured for your system, you can install Git LFS:
- Apt/deb:
sudo apt-get install git-lfs - Yum/rpm:
sudo yum install git-lfs
Several of the commands above assume internet access and use sudo. If your host is behind a proxy-server that is required for internet access, you may depend on environment-variables http_proxy or https_proxy being set, and these might not survive the switch to root with sudo, which resets environment by-default. To get around this, you can run sudo with the -E switch, sudo -E ..., which retains environment variables.