FreeBSD

git-annex is in FreeBSD ports in devel/hs-git-annex

Q: any way to "install" without having root/admin privileges

need to install on a box where I am not an admin, just to copy the files from it (odd that git-annex can't just get anything it needs since SSH is there and working fine!).

Comment by yarikoptic — Sun Dec 7 19:38:46 2025

comment 2

Doesn't FreeBSD support emulating linux syscalls? I suspect that the linux standalone tarball could be used to install git-annex on user-space on FreeBSD and work that way. Have not tried it maybe there is a better way, to install a FreeBSD port as a regular user.

Comment by joey — Wed Dec 10 18:15:59 2025

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don't know much about freebsd but static builds from https://git.kyleam.com/static-annex do not work:

[yoh@dbic-mrinbox ~/git-annex-10.20250828]$ bin/git-annex
ELF binary type "0" not known.
bash: bin/git-annex: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
[yoh@dbic-mrinbox ~/git-annex-10.20250828]$ file bin/git-annex
bin/git-annex: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=a6f7f36778ade374ef6572c787cacf6ffa2ec78d, with debug_info, not stripped

Comment by yarikoptic — Thu Dec 11 12:20:27 2025

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I don't know much about the static-annex builds, but you may have better luck with the Linux standalone builds due to their using a more conventional libc.

Building git-annex from source is not hard if you can get the stack tool installed. It looks like the only currently supported way to do that as a freebsd user is to install https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/ which includes stack. Then follow the fromsource section on "building from source with stack".

Comment by joey — Thu Dec 11 14:56:30 2025

comment 5

FWIW, dynamically linked binary is no good either:

[yoh@dbic-mrinbox ~]$ wget https://downloads.kitenet.net/git-annex/linux/current/git-annex-standalone-amd64.tar.gz
[yoh@dbic-mrinbox ~]$ tar -xzvf git-annex-standalone-amd64.tar.gz 
[yoh@dbic-mrinbox ~]$ cd git-annex.linux/
[yoh@dbic-mrinbox ~/git-annex.linux]$ ls
LICENSE         exe         git-annex       git-core        git-remote-tor-annex    lib         logo_16x16.png      templates
README          extra           git-annex-shell     git-receive-pack    git-shell       lib64           magic           trustedkeys.gpg
bin         gconvdir        git-annex-webapp    git-remote-annex    git-upload-pack     libdirs         runshell        usr
buildid         git         git-annex.MANIFEST  git-remote-p2p-annex    i18n            logo.svg        shimmed
[yoh@dbic-mrinbox ~/git-annex.linux]$ ./git-annex
ELF binary type "3" not known.
exec: /usr/home/yoh/git-annex.linux/exe/git-annex: Exec format error

I will try to assemble build commands later...

Comment by yarikoptic — Fri Dec 12 10:46:12 2025

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