Git LFS install fails on Google Colab even after successful installation using package cloud installer script.

[SachitNayak]

Hi,
I was trying to use git lfs on google Colaboratory.

I successfully installed the package using:
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

However when I try to initialise with git lfs install it fails with the following output:
git: 'lfs' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.The most similar command is log


Is this because a reboot is required after running the script.deb.sh ? or is it something else.
I'm not sure. It would really be nice to have git lfs working on google colab.

Thank You.

[bk2204]

Hey, thanks for writing in.

The script doesn't actually install the packages; it only sets up the repositories. So after that point you'll want to do a sudo apt-get install git-lfs to make sure the package for Git LFS is installed. The script works this way so if we had multiple packages, you'd get to pick what's installed instead of having to install everything.

No reboot is required; you should be fine to simply install the package and continue.