Installing backuppc on Ubuntu 20.04 and ran into a problem downloading and compiling?

Question

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 !!

Answer 1

Your ./makeDist command is failing due to a --releasedate date formatting problem.

You have:

./makeDist --nosyntaxCheck --releasedate "date -u "+%d %b %Y"" --version $VER

So use this:

./makeDist --nosyntaxCheck --releasedate $(date -u '+%d %b %Y') --version $VER

Or this:

./makeDist --nosyntaxCheck --releasedate '30 Jun 2020' --version $VER