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Configuring Git Large File Storage

Once  Git LFS is installed , you need to associate it with a large file in your repository. If there are existing files in your repository that you'd like to use GitHub with, you need to first remove them from the repository and then add them to Git LFS locally. For more information, see " Moving a file in your repository to Git LFS ." If there are referenced Git LFS files that did not upload successfully, you will recieve an error message. For more information, see " Resolving Git Large File Storage upload failures ." Open  the terminal . Change your current working directory to an existing repository you'd like to use with Git LFS. To associate a file type in your repository with Git LFS, enter  git lfs track  followed by the name of the file extension you want to automatically upload to Git LFS. For example, to associate a  .psd  file, enter the following command: $ git lfs track "*.psd" > Adding path *.psd Every file type you want to associ...

How to convert .tar.gz etc to .deb format using checkinstall?

Install checkinstall sudo apt install checkinstall Extract the tarball into a directory. In this case, it is  /tmp/program_example . Open  terminal  and cd into it with: sudo -i cd /tmp/program_example ./configure Now, run: make and then checkinstall -D --pakdir=/home/youruser/packages/