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OS-specific instructions

• [[OSX]]
• [[Debian]]
• [[Ubuntu]]
• [[Fedora]]
• [[FreeBSD]]

Using cabal

As a haskell package, git-annex can be built using cabal. For example:

cabal install git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin

Installation by hand

To build and use git-annex, you will need:

• Haskell stuff
  • The Haskell Platform
  • MissingH
  • pcre-light
  • utf8-string
  • SHA
  • dataenc
  • monad-control
  • TestPack
  • QuickCheck 2
  • HTTP
  • hS3 (optional, but recommended)
• Shell commands
  • git
  • uuid (or uuidgen from util-linux)
  • xargs
  • rsync
  • curl (optional, but recommended)
  • sha1sum (optional, but recommended; a sha1 command will also do)
  • gpg (optional; needed for encryption)
  • ikiwiki (optional; used to build the docs)

Then just [[download]] git-annex and run: make; make install