On Mar 22, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Craig Barratt <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net> wrote:

Steve,

The error is that you don't have the required module "version" installed (ie, running "perl -e 'use version;'" would fail).  Yes, the error is confusing since "version" is such a generic name.

You can use CPAN (or your linux installer if that's what you normally use) to install it:

sudo cpan

install version

Craig

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Steve Palm <n9yty AT n9yty DOT com> wrote:

Sorry, I sent this to the developer list, should probably have gone to the users list... :(

On Mar 4, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Craig Barratt <[email protected].net> wrote:

I'm happy to announce that BackupPC 4.0.0 has been released on Github and SourceForge.  

 I was excited to read this, congratulations on a huge milestone!

BackupPC 4.0.0 requires the perl module BackupPC::XS (>= 0.50) and rsync-bpc (>= 3.0.9.5). 

 I installed these.

After installing those two packages, BackupPC 4.0.0 can be installed from the tar ball with:

    tar zxf BackupPC-4.0.0.tar.gz

    cd BackupPC-4.0.0

    perl configure.pl

 And I was greeted with a very unhelpful....

BackupPC needs the package version.  Please install version
before installing BackupPC.

Even running with a trace is not helping me much, not sure what I'm looking at here:

perl -d:Trace configure.pl
>> configure.pl:54: my @ConfigureBinList = qw(
>> configure.pl:79: my @ConfigureLibList = qw(
>> configure.pl:137: if ( $ConfigureBinList[0] eq "__" . "CONFIGURE_BIN_LIST__" ) {
>> configure.pl:145: my @Packages = qw(version Encode File::Path File::Spec File::Copy DirHandle
>> configure.pl:149: my $PackageVersion = {
>> configure.pl:154: foreach my $pkg ( @Packages ) {
>> configure.pl:155:     eval "use $pkg";
>> (eval 1)[configure.pl:155]:2: ;>> configure.pl:156:     if ( !$@ ) {
>> configure.pl:169:     if ( $pkg =~ /BackupPC::Lib/ ) {
>> configure.pl:184:     die <<EOF;

BackupPC needs the package version.  Please install version
before installing BackupPC.

Any ideas?

 Steve

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