Ok, following the directions here : https://kifarunix.com/install-and-setup-backuppc-server-on-ubuntu-20-04/
I get all the way down to the "Install backuppc on Ubuntu 20.04"
while in the directory backuppc...
Generate the latest release BackupPC tarball from the source file and BackupPC build tools;
VER=curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/backuppc/backuppc/releases/latest" | grep '"tag_name":' | sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/'
Then I try this
./makeDist --nosyntaxCheck --releasedate "date -u "+%d %b %Y"" --version $VER
Error I get below :
Option version requires an argument
usage: ./makeDist [--nolangCheck] [--nosyntaxCheck] [--releasedate 'DD MMM YYYY'] --version X.Y.Z
It acts like it wants a date ? But I can't get anything to work with it?
It should create BackupPC tarball and store is under dist directory in the current working directory as, dist/BackupPC-4.3.2.tar.gz.
Never happens. What in that last code looks wrong, or what am I missing ?
Many thanks in advance !!