[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkj7tMEJKcZpNXIFkHAAcNi5qJFSFyjn6o"
 nickname="thissideup"
 subject="comment 2"
 date="2013-10-22T11:05:13Z"
 content="""
ah okay. That was what I was trying to do, but git-annex failed on my. Remembering that I was on Debian and checking the version (which was June 2012) - I supposed that I wasn't able to use the assistant yet. 

So now I am trying to compile from source using cabal, however I sadly ran into a roadblock: http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/cabal_install_fails_on_uuid/
"""]]
