On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote: > It could be that the initial installation of Fedora 11 installed an older > version of python and then I installed 2.6 as an update. I do install all > updates as soon as the Update Software utility announces them. I don't > actually recall an update for python, but it could have happened. That > might have left me with a python that is incompatible with my current > version of rdiff-backup.
Or, a version of rdiff-backup that's incompatible with the latest python. :-) > This sounds promising, but I can't find setup.py in the rdiff-backup > folder: > > [...@devil8 ~]$ locate rdiff > /usr/bin/rdiff-backup > /usr/bin/rdiff-backup-statistics > /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rdiff_backup > <within this folder are the scripts> Hmm-m-m. > Although I think I have found the folder with the scripts, there is no > setup.py script. I read through them and there is no other script that > sounds like its purpose is to install or set up rdiff-backup. Should be associated with rdiff-backup. > If I do "locate setup.py" I get ten different setup.py files. All are in > subfolders of /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/numpy/, and none sound as > though they have anything to do with rdiff-backup. No, you don't want NumPy (that's a numeric package for mathematics using python). > I also perused the rdiff-backup web page and wiki, but didn't find > anything. Most of the questions and answers there relate to really old > versions of rdiff-backup and python. I don't know anything about rdiff-backup, but the error messages you first reported looked to me like python version issues. Perhaps someone more clued than I can help. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
