# Installing git-lfs **URL:** \ **Category:** Build Environment\ **Tags:** git-lfs\ **Created:** [December 2, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867 "2015-12-02T00:53:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kimh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/kimh/32/19_2.png) [@kimh](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/kimh)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/1 "2015-12-02T00:53:32Z")
**This page contains out of date information!! git-lfs is pre-installed in Ubuntu 14.04 so users don’t have to install manually.** We don’t pre-install git-lfs but will do in the future container image release. In the meantime, you can install by your own. ```auto dependencies: override: # Install git-lfs - curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash - sudo apt-get install git-lfs=1.1.0 - ssh git@github.com git-lfs-authenticate /.git download ``` Please replace `/` with your own in order to authenticate git-lfs. As of Dec 2015, git-lfs doesn’t support a deployment key, which CircleCI uses by default to checkout your repo, so you need to add a user key. ---
**Author:** ![moret](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/moret/32/682_2.png) [@moret](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/moret)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/2 "2015-12-10T16:37:22Z")
I tried it this way for a private repository, but git existed with code 1: ```auto Deploy keys can not access Git LFS objects on private repositories Action failed: ssh git@github.com git-lfs-authenticate xxx/yyy.git download ``` Digging around it looks like it’s because Git LFS does not support deploy keys yet: [https://github.com/github/git-lfs/issues/716#issuecomment-146251920](https://github.com/github/git-lfs/issues/716#issuecomment-146251920) ---
**Author:** ![kimh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/kimh/32/19_2.png) [@kimh](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/kimh)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/3 "2015-12-11T00:32:51Z")
@moret > Git LFS does not support deploy keys yet That’s correct. I’ll modify my original post to use a user key. ---
**Author:** ![ThuggishNuggets](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/thuggishnuggets/32/1522_2.png) [@ThuggishNuggets](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/ThuggishNuggets)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/4 "2016-02-25T22:56:23Z")
**For iOS (OS X containers) usage of the above script results in the following error:** > Unfortunately, your operating system distribution and version are not supported by this script. > > You can override the OS detection by setting os= and dist= prior to running this script. > You can find a list of supported OSes and distributions on our website: [packagecloud Documentation - Documentation for the Command-Line Interface (CLI) and automation tools](https://packagecloud.io/docs#os_distro_version) > > For example, to force Ubuntu Trusty: os=ubuntu dist=trusty ./script.sh > > curl -s [https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh](https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh) | sudo bash returned exit code 1 **Instead you can use homebrew to install git-lfs like this:** > ``` > dependencies: > override: > # Install git-lfs > - brew install git-lfs > - ssh git@github.com git-lfs-authenticate /.git download > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![ttuulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@ttuulari](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/ttuulari)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/5 "2016-03-15T11:24:02Z")
I installed git-lfs with the above instrucitons. However, the large file in my repo is still not downloaded. Tried with these commands: ```auto dependencies: override: # Install git-lfs - curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash - sudo apt-get install git-lfs=1.1.0 - ssh git@github.com git-lfs-authenticate /.git download - git lfs fetch - rm large_file - git checkout large_file ``` The large\_file is still just a small text pointer file and the actual file is not downloaded. fetch output: git lfs fetch Fetching dev Git LFS: (0 of 1 files) 0 B / 294.43 MB Git LFS: (0 of 1 files) 0 B / 294.43 MB Any tips on how to trigger the download? ---
**Author:** ![ttuulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@ttuulari](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/ttuulari)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/6 "2016-03-15T12:04:25Z")
Solution was to use `git lfs pull` instead of `git lfs fetch` ---
**Author:** ![brutuscat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/brutuscat/32/2704_2.png) [@brutuscat](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/brutuscat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/7 "2016-07-20T15:58:32Z")
> [@ttuulari](#): > > git lfs fetch I’m using trying to use git lfs pull with no result neither… 😢 `ubuntu@box84:~/vreasy$ git lfs pull Git LFS: (0 of 899 files) 0 B / 23.97 MB exit status 1 exit status 1 ubuntu@box84:~/vreasy$ git lfs fetch Fetching packaging-npm-deps Git LFS: (0 of 899 files) 0 B / 23.97 MB exit status 1 exit status 1 ` ---
**Author:** ![brutuscat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/brutuscat/32/2704_2.png) [@brutuscat](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/brutuscat)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/8 "2016-07-26T23:14:53Z")
Ok, so this was an issue within github and in particular with the ssh git-lfs-authenticate command. I raised a support ticket to them and it is now fixed! ---
**Author:** ![brendonjustin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/brendonjustin/32/2981_2.png) [@brendonjustin](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/brendonjustin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/9 "2016-09-09T15:48:02Z")
Our iOS project fails because `brew install git-lfs` fails, complaining: ``` $ brew install git-lfs Error: You must `brew unpin go` as installing git-lfs requires the latest version of pinned dependencies brew install git-lfs returned exit code 1 Action failed: brew install git-lfs` ``` I am using the suggested solution, unpinning go, but it’d be nice if that wasn’t necessary. ---
**Author:** ![peter-mouland](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/peter-mouland/32/14230_2.png) [@peter-mouland](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/peter-mouland)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/11 "2016-09-23T14:55:33Z")
my `git lfs pull` command always fails with the following message: With git lfs v1.1.0 the process would fail silently, with v1.2.1 it quits circle ci ```auto git lfs pull Git LFS: (0 of 2 files, 2 skipped) 0 B / 723.49 KB, 723.49 KB skipped [404] Object does not exist on the server [07fa5fc50d71851a2b1143d75c0e63106d34248bdab2fac57637b9d98ed5edb9] Object does not exist on the server git lfs pull returned exit code 2 Action failed: git lfs pull ``` the circleci.yml file looks like : ```auto dependencies: pre: - curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash - sudo apt-get install git-lfs=1.2.1 - ssh git@github.com git-lfs-authenticate username/repo.git download - git lfs pull - git lfs pull ``` Is anyone able to point me in the right direction? ---
**Author:** ![matthayes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/matthayes/32/15452_2.png) [@matthayes](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/matthayes)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/12 "2017-02-14T23:37:33Z")
It seems like these instructions to install git-lfs in dependencies is out of date. It seems git-lfs is already installed now in CircleCI ([Ubuntu 14.04 Build Image Update 201701-01](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/ubuntu-14-04-build-image-update-201701-01/9245/8)). This page should probably be deleted or an update should be put at the top because it’s pretty confusing otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![kimh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/kimh/32/19_2.png) [@kimh](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/kimh)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/13 "2017-02-15T08:13:01Z")
Archived on February 15, 2017, 8:13am UTC ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/installing-git-lfs/867/14 "2018-06-18T11:37:42Z")
Closed on June 18, 2018, 11:37am UTC