Backup Client does not install from repo on ubuntu 20.04 UTS

[JoeDragon]

It needs libapt-pkg5.0 and does not like libapt-pkg6.0 that is installed

 

[t.lamprecht]

Yeah, this is known - actually the client does not need libapt-pkg, only the server does but the linker gets confused and adds it still as dependency.
We plan to split server and client (and possibly some other stuff) in separate crates, so that this confusion cannot even happen - then the really only the used stuff should be linked in.

 

[Apollon77]

Any news here? It is not that fun as it sounds to build every version manually

 

[bzg]

Any news regarding Ubuntu (or other distros) packages?

 

[t.lamprecht]

We'll look into client packages for other distros in the near future, until now getting PBS and soon also the PVE integration released as stable had more priority.

FYI: There's an Arch Linux User Repository (AUR) client package already, it's relatively simple to maintain as the compilation is done on the user side.

 

[Apollon77]

> FYI: There's an Arch Linux User Repository (AUR) client package already, it's relatively simple to maintain as the compilation is done on the user side.

Hm ... Yes they stopped at realease 0.8.x ... I currently do that manually for each of your release ... it is not that easy s yu think because there are patches in it (systemd/apt stuff) and in fact as soon as upstream changes here you need to experiment.

Also some dependent libs are not using git tags, so I can only pull master without knowing which was the version to build.

So it is a try and error and in the end I may have a build ... not knowing what "version mix" I have

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hm ... Yes they stopped at realease 0.8.x ... I currently do that manually for each of your release ... it is not that easy s yu think because there are patches in it (systemd/apt stuff) and in fact as soon as upstream changes here you need to experiment.

Not true, as I did the upgrade to 0.9.7 on Tuesday, and the 1.0.1 yesterday, so I'd say it's quite recent now
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/proxmox-backup-client/

Also some dependent libs are not using git tags, so I can only pull master without knowing which was the version to build.

They all use either explicit versions or references, the version is always marked with an explicit bump commit.

So it is a try and error and in the end I may have a build ... not knowing what "version mix" I have

Either use the AUR package as reference for explicit refs where no tags are available (which are only two repositories, IIRC) or as said, use the version bump commits, as well, they are the version used

We'll look into improving the availability of tags in the future.

 

[Sven Jörns]

The documentation already planned could help. https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/installation.html#installing-from-source

 

[Apollon77]

Ok, then I looked before you did update AUR packages

My issue so far was not the backup-client repo - yes there version tags are used.

But I also needed to checkout the "proxmox" repo and here I did not saw version tags ...

But lest phrase it that way:

I have no real clue what I do there and I just try to get a client to use in all my Ubuntu VMs and LXCs and so no idea if the AUR ones really work out of the box there. I only state that I had much "fun" with this over the course of the versions

 

[tapu]

Any news about Ubuntu packages?

 

[Frederico Siena]

See https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-to-install-proxmox-backup-client-under-ubuntu.81371/

 

[t.lamprecht]

Hi,

we worked around some linking/dependency issues and with version 1.0.8 the dependencies required got reduced, so that it now installs on Bullseye, Ubuntu 20.xy versions and possible other Debian derivatives just fine.

wget http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/buster/pvetest/binary-amd64/proxmox-backup-client_1.0.8-1_amd64.deb

# checksum verification
sha256sum proxmox-backup-client_1.0.8-1_amd64.deb 
f812593f8f1895fc5cbd5c8b6ec1120a4f863739c7c23aa0f2c15b0f7c59033a  proxmox-backup-client_1.0.8-1_amd64.deb

apt update
apt install ./proxmox-backup-client_1.0.8-1_amd64.deb

 

[Joi Owen]

Talk about timing. I just encountered this installing on an Ubuntu 20.04 test vm and hit this issue. Your test package installed properly.

 

[Apollon77]

Awesome, thank you!