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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?

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    This link could be helpful if you didn't try it yet: help.github.com/articles/installing-git-large-file-storage
    – Adnan
    Jul 16, 2016 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, 2016 at 13:49
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    could you specify where the problem is ? like what's wrong in that step
    – Adnan
    Jul 16, 2016 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, 2016 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, 2022 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.

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    this looked promising, but after running with sudo bash, I still cannot git lfs track - it says 'lfs' is not a git command
    – tofutim
    Oct 21, 2016 at 5:53
  • silly me, I still had to run sudo apt-get install git-lfs
    – tofutim
    Oct 21, 2016 at 5:55
  • @tofutim You probably meant sudo apt-get install git?
    – edwinksl
    Oct 21, 2016 at 6:32
  • nope, already installed git, but i needed git-lfs
    – tofutim
    Oct 21, 2016 at 8:05
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    For Ubuntu 18.04.02, all I had to do was run sudo apt install git-lfs
    – Prajwal
    Jul 3, 2019 at 9:03
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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

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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

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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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