raj
November 2, 2019, 10:37pm
1
I could not install restic software using the apt-get install restic
. Package not found error is happening. I did apt-get update
and tried. still not working.
I downloded binary restic-0.9.5.tar.gz from https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.9.5 . Extracted it and tried to install as per this post using ./configure. But after extracting, it does not have configure or bin folder.
I do not have any experience in Ubuntu. Please tell me how to install the software after extracting restic-0.9.5.tar.gz file in Ubuntu.
cdhowie
November 2, 2019, 10:40pm
2
Assuming a 64-bit kernel, just get the prebuild 0.9.5 binary for Linux amd64 , uncompress it, mark it executable, and move it where you want it.
You can do this by running these commands as root:
wget -O restic.bz2 https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/download/v0.9.5/restic_0.9.5_linux_amd64.bz2
bunzip2 restic.bz2
chmod +x restic
mv restic /usr/local/bin/
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rolfn
November 5, 2019, 1:38pm
4
But please note that this is not an “official” PPA. So if this is outdated or varies from the released binaries please contact the maintainer of that PPA.
I installed the snap version in classic mode. That way, it will automatically stay updated.
sudo snap install restic --classic