Package: owncloud-client-cmd Version: 2.2.4+dfsg-2 On a fresh bare metal installation of Debian 9.4 stretch, with no GUI, I installed owncloud-client-cmd.
root@dzur:/etc# pre owncloud libowncloudsync0 2.2.4+dfsg-2 amd64 owncloud-client-cmd 2.2.4+dfsg-2 amd64 owncloud-client-l10n 2.2.4+dfsg-2 all root@dzur:/etc# I then executed the following: charles@dzur:~$ /usr/bin/owncloudcmd --user charles --password <obfucated> /home/charles/nextcloud https://nextcloud/nextcloud QIODevice::read (QFile, "/home/charles/.local/share/data//ownCloud//cookies.db"): device not open Set proxy configuration to use system configuration Cannot load system exclude list or list supplied via --exclude Aborted charles@dzur:~$ I solved that by going to a backup from a prior installation (/crc/dzur), and copying in the relevant files: charles@dzur:~$ mkdir -p /home/charles/.local/share/data//ownCloud/ charles@dzur:~$ /usr/bin/owncloudcmd --user charles --password <obfuscated> /home/charles/nextcloud https://nextcloud/nextcloud QIODevice::read (QFile, "/home/charles/.local/share/data//ownCloud//cookies.db"): device not open Set proxy configuration to use system configuration Cannot load system exclude list or list supplied via --exclude Aborted charles@dzur:~$ ls /crc/dzur/home/charles/.l .lesshst .local/ charles@dzur:~$ ls /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/ applications/ keyrings/ shotwell/ xfce4/ data/ orage/ shotwell.old/ xorg/ gnome-sudoku/ recently-used.xbel Trash/ gvfs-metadata/ ristretto/ vlc/ charles@dzur:~$ ls /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/ cookies1.db cookies.db folders owncloud.cfg charles@dzur:~$ ls /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/* ~/.local/share/data/ownCloud//crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/cookies1.db /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/cookies.db /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/owncloud.cfg /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/folders: ownCloud /home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/: charles@dzur:~$ cp -rp /crc/dzur/home/charles/.local/share/data/ownCloud/* ~/.local/share/data/ownCloud/ charles@dzur:~$ Once more, with feeling: charles@dzur:~$ /usr/bin/owncloudcmd --user charles --password <obfuscated> /home/charles/nextcloud https://nextcloud/nextcloud Set proxy configuration to use NO proxy Cannot load system exclude list or list supplied via --exclude Aborted charles@dzur:~$ Some googling produced https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues/4955 That lead me to solve that problem by again copying in from a backup: root@dzur:/etc# cp -rp /crc/dzur/etc/owncloud-client/ . root@dzur:/etc# ll owncloud-client/ total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 6 12:53 ./ drwxr-xr-x 105 root root 12288 May 28 08:34 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 362 Sep 27 2016 sync-exclude.lst root@dzur:/etc# The next test produced a sucessful run. On a headerless system, a GUI is superfluous. A command line only program should not depend on GUI versions of the program. So the owncloud-client-cmd package should (if necessary) install a minimal etc/owncloud-client/. The lack of the user's ~/.local is probably something that should be solved on the first run of the program, so I suggest that is an upstream bug. -- "When we talk of civilization, we are too apt to limit the meaning of the word to its mere embellishments, such as arts and sciences; but the true distinction between it and barbarism is, that the one presents a state of society under the protection of just and well-administered law, and the other is left to the chance government of brute force." - The Rev. James White, Eighteen Christian Centuries, 1889 Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB https://charlescurley.com
