Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC needs the package BackupPC::Lib

[matthew b. <ma...@ma...>]

and you know what? that's exactly it. and it is even in the instructions,
i just sort of glazed over that.

Craig Barratt said:
> "matthew bradley" writes:
>
>> here's a newbie question for you all, i suppose. i tried googling
>> around, poking through the backuppc site, and cpan and couldn't find
>> BackupPC::Lib as a separate package anywhere.
>>
>> when i run configure.pl to install BackupPC, i get the following
>> error:
>>
>> "BackupPC needs the package BackupPC::Lib.  Please install
>> BackupPC::Lib before installing BackupPC."
>>
>> any thoughts? i suppose i am probably missing something very
>> fundamental but this is throwing me for a loop.
>
> BackupPC::Lib isn't a separate module; it is included in the
> distribution.
>
> Perhaps you are running configure.pl without first cd'ing to
> the directory in which you unpacked the BackupPC tarball?
>
> Eg, this won't work:
>
>     tar zxvf BackupPC-2.0.2.tar.gz
>     BackupPC-2.0.2/configure.pl
>
> but this will:
>
>     tar zxvf BackupPC-2.0.2.tar.gz
>     cd BackupPC-2.0.2
>     ./configure.pl
>
> Craig


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