How to install git-lfs on Ubuntu 16.04?
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.
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.
sudo apt-get install software-properties-commonsudo curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash*sudo apt-get install git-lfsgit 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
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.