RHEL Install GIT LFS Installation

GIT LFS Installation Redhat Linux

Posted November 04, 2020

GIT LFS may not be shipped inside redhat EPEL repository. We will learn how to install it manually using rpm package from the official release page.

Download the latest GIT LFS RPM file for your distribution from the AWS official release page.
https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/releases
```
curl https://packagecloud.io/github/git-lfs/packages/el/7/git-lfs-2.12.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm/download
```
Login as root user on the Linux machine to perform the installation.
```
sudo su - root
```
Execute the following command to perform the installation.
```
rpm -iv git-lfs-2.12.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
```
Once installed you will be able to use git-lfs with following
```
git-lfs  --version
```

We can always find rpm file for the open source package which may not be shipped inside official distribution repository.