Re: Trying to install beta in CentOS 8 -- missing py3libacl, python3-pyxattr

Robert Nichols <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/11/20 4:03 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 1/11/20 3:00 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> I am far, far away from getting this to install. "pip3 install pyxattr" fails with:
>>     acl.c:23:10: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> All attempts to install rdiff-backup fail with:
>>     No matching distribution found for rdiff-backup-1.4.0{whatever I try}-linux_x86.64
>>
>> If I include the .whl suffix I just get "looks like a filename, but file does not exist".
>>
>> I am way out of my territory here. I'm afraid I have to ask for the exact keystrokes to
>> type, without any "VERSION" placeholders or "ignore slight differences in versioning"
>> comments. My distro is CentOS 8, 64 bit.  Python version is 3.6.8.
>>
>> I'd rather not wait for the official release in order to find the hard-link problems
>> that I am 99% sure I will find.
> 
> OK, I got past installing the -devel packages needed to build pylibacl and pyxattr.
> I am still no closer to intalling the rdiff-backup beta itself.

Well, I finally found the list of wheel files, picked the right one, and got rdiff-backup
installed in CentOS 8. Now I can begin testing.

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