Thanks so much, Craig! I really appreciate it. Looking forward to trying it
out, although reading the list it might be better to wait for your 4.1.0
release or grab the current from GitHub, as it seemed there are a few issues
that are resolved which would affect us upgrading from v3.
> On Mar 22, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Craig Barratt <cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net
> <mailto:cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> The error is that you don't have the required module "version" installed (ie,
> running "perl -e 'use version;'" would fail). Yes, the error is confusing
> since "version" is such a generic name.
>
> You can use CPAN (or your linux installer if that's what you normally use) to
> install it:
>
> sudo cpan
> install version
>
> Craig
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Steve Palm <n9...@n9yty.com
> <mailto:n9...@n9yty.com>> wrote:
> Sorry, I sent this to the developer list, should probably have gone to the
> users list... :(
>
> On Mar 4, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Craig Barratt <cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net
> <mailto:cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
>> I'm happy to announce that BackupPC 4.0.0 has been released on Github
>> <https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/releases> and SourceForge
>> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/files/backuppc/4.0.0/>.
>
> I was excited to read this, congratulations on a huge milestone!
>
>> BackupPC 4.0.0 requires the perl module BackupPC::XS
>> <https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc-xs/releases> (>= 0.50) and rsync-bpc
>> <https://github.com/backuppc/rsync-bpc/releases> (>= 3.0.9.5).
>
> I installed these.
>
>> After installing those two packages, BackupPC 4.0.0 can be installed from
>> the tar ball with:
>>
>> tar zxf BackupPC-4.0.0.tar.gz
>> cd BackupPC-4.0.0
>> perl configure.pl <http://configure.pl/>
> And I was greeted with a very unhelpful....
>
> BackupPC needs the package version. Please install version
> before installing BackupPC.
>
> Even running with a trace is not helping me much, not sure what I'm looking
> at here:
>
> perl -d:Trace configure.pl <http://configure.pl/>
> >> configure.pl:54 <http://configure.pl:54/>: my @ConfigureBinList = qw(
> >> configure.pl:79 <http://configure.pl:79/>: my @ConfigureLibList = qw(
> >> configure.pl:137 <http://configure.pl:137/>: if ( $ConfigureBinList[0] eq
> >> "__" . "CONFIGURE_BIN_LIST__" ) {
> >> configure.pl:145 <http://configure.pl:145/>: my @Packages = qw(version
> >> Encode File::Path File::Spec File::Copy DirHandle
> >> configure.pl:149 <http://configure.pl:149/>: my $PackageVersion = {
> >> configure.pl:154 <http://configure.pl:154/>: foreach my $pkg ( @Packages )
> >> {
> >> configure.pl:155 <http://configure.pl:155/>: eval "use $pkg";
> >> (eval 1)[configure.pl:155]:2: ;>> configure.pl:156
> >> <http://configure.pl:156/>: if ( !$@ ) {
> >> configure.pl:169 <http://configure.pl:169/>: if ( $pkg =~
> >> /BackupPC::Lib/ ) {
> >> configure.pl:184 <http://configure.pl:184/>: die <<EOF;
>
> BackupPC needs the package version. Please install version
> before installing BackupPC.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Steve
>
>
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