Re: [BackupPC-users] failure installing to bin subdirectory

[Jim M. <jim...@gm...>]

It didn't make much of a difference. I created the directory
/usr/local/backuppc, and had the install happen there rather than
/usr/local/BackupPC. Same error looks to have happened -

Ok, we're about to:

  - install the binaries, lib and docs in /usr/local/backuppc,
  - create the data directory /var/backups/BackupPC,
  - create/update the config.pl file /var/backups/BackupPC/conf/config.pl,
  - optionally install the cgi-bin interface.

--> Do you want to continue? [y]? y
Created /usr/local/backuppc/bin
Created /usr/local/backuppc/doc
Created /usr/local/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/CGI
Created /usr/local/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Config
Created /usr/local/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lang
Created /usr/local/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Storage
Created /usr/local/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Xfer
Created /usr/local/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Zip
Created /var/backups/BackupPC
Created /var/backups/BackupPC/pool
Created /var/backups/BackupPC/cpool
Created /var/backups/BackupPC/pc
Created /var/backups/BackupPC/trash
Created /var/backups/BackupPC/conf
Created /var/backups/BackupPC/log
Installing binaries in /usr/local/backuppc/bin
can't open bin/BackupPC for reading


On Dec 7, 2007 4:01 PM, Craig Barratt <cba...@us...>
wrote:

> Jim writes:
>
> > I have a sever that has been happily running backuppc 2.1.0 for well
> > over a year, and decided to upgrade it to 3.1.0. The server is Debian
> > stable, but BackupPC has only been installed from source, never
> > through apt-get or aptitude. So I stopped the BackupPC process, and
> > moved the old /usr/local/BackupPC to /usr/local/old-BackupPC. I
> > extracted 3.1.0 to /usr/local/BackupPC. I cd into the directory
> > /usr/local/BackupPC, and run perl configure.pl.
>
> It looks like you unpacked the tar source in the same directory you
> are installing it into.  You need to unpack the tar source into a
> different directory, and run configure.pl from there.
>
> Craig
>