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I downloaded fwbackups and saved to my download file. It shows up in the folder as the following:

/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4.tar.bz2 1.6 MB Tar Archive (bzip-compressed)

When I right click on it I get options: Open with Archive Manager, Open with Archive Mounter, Open with other program, and other options. I figured the first option is the usual one and when I opened it I got another screen with other options. I lost my nerve at that point and did not use any of the options given. Perhaps the extract here is correct?

Extract the archive and read the README file for instructions to install from source.

Cecar,

From the read me file it recommended I go to

http://www.diffingo.com/oss/fwbackups/d ... stallation

and follow those instructions as they were the latest.

Ubuntu/Mint Linux

To install fwbackups from source on Ubuntu, download the source tarball to your home folder and then open a terminal session (select Applications > System Tools > Terminal). Type the following commands into the terminal:

sudo apt-get install gettext autotools-dev intltool python-crypto python-paramiko python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-notify cron
tar xfj fwbackups-1.43.4.tar.bz2
cd fwbackups-1.43.4
./configure --prefix=/usr
make && sudo make install

Some Ubuntu distributions no longer include the Python "site-packages" directory in their search path, which may prevent fwbackups from starting. If this is the case, execute this code in addition to the code above:

PYTHONVER=$(python -c 'import sys;print "%s.%s" % (sys.version_info[0], sys.version_info[1])')
sudo ln -s ../site-packages/fwbackups /usr/lib/python${PYTHONVER}/dist-packages/fwbackups

I did enter at the terminal

sudo apt-get install gettext autotools-dev intltool python-crypto python-paramiko python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-notify cron
tar xfj fwbackups-1.43.4.tar.bz2

and it went to work and did a bunch of stuff. Then I entered

cd fwbackups-1.43.4 ./configure --prefix=/usr make && sudo make install

and it said no such file or directory. I wasn't sure if each of those lines should be seperate commands so I tried

cd fwbackups-1.43.4

and same thing. I then did the PYTHONVER one and it said it was already installed and up to date.

I am now at a loss as to what to do next. Can you help with this?

Try line by line like this.

I have a feeling i am not doing this right. Below is what I tried - please advise.

jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ select all
> cd
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `cd'
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ select all
> cd fwbackups-1.43.4
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `cd'
Then:
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ cd
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ fwbackups-1.43.4
fwbackups-1.43.4: command not found
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ select all cd
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `cd'
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $

Perhaps I do not really understand what I am supposed to do line by line. I tried putting in CODE: SELECT ALL in the terminal line but that was not correct either.

Yes thats wrong. Do not type in "select all" . The commands is what is below "select all". For example cd.

Is the below how I do it and if so something must not be right?

jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ cd
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ cd fwbackups-1.43.4
bash: cd: fwbackups-1.43.4: No such file or directory
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ make && sudo make install
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $

The directory do not exist. Type in to see if there is a directory by that name.

I did this and here is what I got:
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ cd
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ cd fwbackups-1.43.4
bash: cd: fwbackups-1.43.4: No such file or directory
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ ls -1
alx
compat-wireless-2012-07-03-pc
Desktop
Documents
Downloads
Music
Pictures
Public
rpmbuild
Templates
Videos
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $

Well its not there. Did you unpack it? Try to find it.

Here is what is under downloads:

/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4
/home/jerry/Downloads/Exported Mail Data
/home/jerry/Downloads/Mail Folders
/home/jerry/Downloads/sunbird
/home/jerry/Downloads/BeerSmith-2.1.02_amd64.deb
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4.tar.bz2

Here is what is under "/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4" :

/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/bin
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/docs
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/pixmaps
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/po
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/aclocal.m4
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/AUTHORS
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/ChangeLog
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/configure
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/configure.ac
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/COPYING
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/fwbackups.spec
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/fwbackups.spec.in
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/INSTALL
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/install-sh
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/intltool-extract.in
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/intltool-merge.in
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/intltool-update.in
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/Makefile.am
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/Makefile.in
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/missing
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/NEWS
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/py-compile
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/test.operations.py
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/TODO
/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/README

I did at an earlier point unpack it and it named this one "/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4 (2)" and I deleted the original and renamed this one to "/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4" Is it possible that when I renamed it that it somehow made it un available? Perhaps I should delete it and the extract again fresh?

Ok. Now we know where it is.

Ok, progress is being made. Here is what happened after the last command was entered. I don't know if this means it was installed or not.

jerry@Jerry-System ~/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4 $ make && sudo make install
Making all in bin
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/bin'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/bin'
Making all in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/po'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/po'
Making all in pixmaps
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/pixmaps'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/pixmaps'
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src'
Making all in src/fwbackups/operations
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src/fwbackups/operations'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src/fwbackups/operations'
Making all in src/fwbackups
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src/fwbackups'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src/fwbackups'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4'
[sudo] password for jerry:
Making install in bin
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/bin'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/bin'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
/bin/bash /home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/install-sh -d /usr/bin
/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 fwbackups /usr/bin/fwbackups
/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 fwbackups-run.py /usr/bin/fwbackups-run
/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 fwbackups-runonce.py /usr/bin/fwbackups-runonce
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/bin'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/bin'
Making install in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/po'
linguas=""; \
for lang in $linguas; do \
dir=/usr/share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES; \
/bin/bash /home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/install-sh -d $dir; \
if test -r $lang.gmo; then \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $lang.gmo $dir/fwbackups.mo; \
echo "installing $lang.gmo as $dir/fwbackups.mo"; \
else \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$lang.gmo $dir/fwbackups.mo; \
echo "installing ./$lang.gmo as" \
"$dir/fwbackups.mo"; \
fi; \
if test -r $lang.gmo.m; then \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $lang.gmo.m $dir/fwbackups.mo.m; \
echo "installing $lang.gmo.m as $dir/fwbackups.mo.m"; \
else \
if test -r ./$lang.gmo.m ; then \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./$lang.gmo.m \
$dir/fwbackups.mo.m; \
echo "installing ./$lang.gmo.m as" \
"$dir/fwbackups.mo.m"; \
else \
true; \
fi; \
fi; \
done
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/po'
Making install in pixmaps
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/pixmaps'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/pixmaps'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
/bin/bash /home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/install-sh -d /usr/share/pixmaps/
/bin/bash /home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/install-sh -d /usr/share/fwbackups/
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 fwbackups.svg /usr/share/pixmaps/fwbackups.svg
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 fwbackups-32.png /usr/share/fwbackups/fwbackups.png
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/pixmaps'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/pixmaps'
Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
/bin/bash /home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/install-sh -d /usr/share/applications
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 fwbackups.desktop /usr/share/applications/fwbackups.desktop
test -z "/usr/share/fwbackups" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/share/fwbackups"
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 BugReport.glade cronwriter.py fwbackups.glade fwbackups-autostart.desktop fwbackups-runapp.pyw '/usr/share/fwbackups'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src'
Making install in src/fwbackups/operations
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src/fwbackups/operations'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src/fwbackups/operations'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fwbackups/operations" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fwbackups/operations"
/bin/mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fwbackups': File exists
make[2]: *** [install-pyPYTHON] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src/fwbackups/operations'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jerry/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4/src/fwbackups/operations'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
jerry@Jerry-System ~/Downloads/fwbackups-1.43.4 $

There is an icon under system tools but when I click on it nothing happens.

Try it from terminal. It might show you why its not working.

Here is what it does:

jerry@Jerry-System ~ $ fwbackups
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/fwbackups/fwbackups-runapp.pyw", line 29, in <module>
from fwbackups.const import *
ImportError: No module named fwbackups.const
jerry@Jerry-System ~ $

I found information of that problem here under point 3. http://www.diffingo.com/oss/fwbackups/faq Looks like it's a problem with installed version of Python. See there if there is a solution. Looks a bit complicated. I'm sorry i can't do more to help you on this.

You have been great. Thank you for all the help you did give.

Hey guys, I know my post is over a year since the last post, but I found this thread helpful while I was experiencing the same issues, and I happened upon a fix. So, Jerry was getting this error. I was getting the same exact error:


We will recall these are the steps to install FWbackups on Linux Mint:

During my install, the "make && sudo make install" gave a long log. At the end of the log, was this:

Notice at the end of this log are a few errors. Notice also it says "cannot create directory ‘/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/fwbackups’." When I went to this file, and tried to open it, I got error: "The link fwbackups is broken. Move it to trash? This link cannot be used, because it's target "../site-packages/fwbackups" doesn't exist. Cancel? Move to Trash?" I moved it to the trash. Then I ran this command again: <i>make && sudo make install</i>. Much to my surprise, this fixed the problem! I opened a new terminal, keyed in fwbackups, and it fired up perfectly!