git-annex/ install/ Debian

## Debian testing or unstable

Debian unstable and testing are usually fairly up to date, so this should be enough:

    sudo apt install git-annex

## Standalone backports for all releases

If the version shipped with Debian is too old, the NeuroDebian team provides a standalone build package that is regularly updated and that should work across all releases of Debian.

comment 8

@mey.vn, Debian packages of git-annex, as uploaded to the Debian repositories, are built with whatever libc version the Debian autobuilder is running. You cannot, in general, install packages from Debian unstable into stable without upgrading your libc6.

The release notes were not talking about the Debian packages, but about the Linux standalone tarballs. Those are built with libc 2.13.

Comment by http://joeyh.name/ — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
libc6 dep version on amd64

hi Joey,

i see from the release notes of the 4.20130521 release that the Debian package should now be built with libc6 2.13, which appears to be the case except for the amd64 arch (hence the amd64 package won't install as is on Wheezy on amd64) - is this a build glitch or is 2.14 needed on amd64 (i imagine as a dependency of one of git-annex's deps on that arch)?

thanks!

Comment by http://mey.vn/ — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
comment 4

Yes, git-annex is available for every Debian architecture which supports Haskell, including all arm ports:

    git-annex | 3.20120629         | wheezy            | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc

Comment by http://joeyh.name/ — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
ARM
is there any package for Debian armhf? I'd love to install git-annex on my raspberry pi
Comment by https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkstq9oH1vHXY_VP0nYO9Gg3eKnKerDGRI — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
Re: squeeze-backports update?
Yes, I uploaded it last night.
Comment by http://joey.kitenet.net/ — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
comment 17

Debian squeeze has an extremely ancient ghc compiler, and it would be a mammoth undertaking to build current git-annex using that.

Use the linux standalone build instead.

Comment by http://joeyh.name/ — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
debian squeeze

I'm tring to set up a bare repo on a debian squeeze server and sync it to windows client. Unfortunately the direct mode does not seem to be available for the git-annex version (3.20120629~bpo60+2 ) in the squeeze-backports

Would you be able to update the version in that repository? Thank you for your hard work! Git-annex is awesome

Comment by https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawm9ocq1Kb0WL-cz-LPpvd2Xm-q8tIQvqXA — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
Re: installed git-annex on debian but cannot find it
@Miles - The command is git annex webapp to bring up the web interface.
Comment by https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawk_GWOEjK4Sn4hUB6ofFlE3CNeC7tO56J8 — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
installed git-annex on debian but cannot find it
I am an absolute beginner when it comes to linux in debian in particular. I installed git-annex via the root terminal, but now I do not know where to find it. I searched for in the file system but could not locate it. Any help is appreciated.
Comment by Miles — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
For stretch on armhf, install from unstable
I found that there is a git-annex package available on unstable, so I installed this one. Everything seems to work.
Comment by Alan — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
No package for armhf on stretch
I cannot find a package in stretch for armhf (It's not listed here: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/git-annex). Is my only option to install from source?
Comment by Alan — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
Easy
Easy to install.
Comment by chris — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
squeeze-backports update?

Is there going to be an update of git-annex in debian squeeze-backports to a version that supports repository version 3? Thx

Comment by https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawla7u6eLKNYZ09Z7xwBffqLaXquMQC07fU — Wed Oct 29 14:05:27 2025
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