#1541 Issue `closed`: Cannot Run on Debian 8.9¶

Labels: support / question, fixed / solved / done

tropicaljoe opened issue at 2017-10-23 19:13:¶

Using Relax and Recover 2.2 running on Debian 8.9 64 bit
Install from repository and all dependencies met, however try to just run "rear -v" results in error log below, no matter what I run, just getting this error, seems to be a dependency error, but not sure
from the log:

2017-10-23 14:05:38.974886707 Including conf/Linux-i386.conf
2017-10-23 14:05:38.980564124 Including conf/GNU/Linux.conf
2017-10-23 14:05:39.004641738 Including /etc/rear/local.conf
2017-10-23 14:05:39.011015629 ======================
2017-10-23 14:05:39.013602582 Running 'init' stage
2017-10-23 14:05:39.016238584 ======================
2017-10-23 14:05:39.030603512 Including init/default/010_set_drlm_env.sh
2017-10-23 14:05:39.033648380 Including init/default/030_update_recovery_system.sh
2017-10-23 14:05:39.036723612 Including init/default/050_check_rear_recover_mode.sh
2017-10-23 14:05:39.039786528 Finished running 'init' stage in 0 seconds
/usr/share/rear/lib/_input-output-functions.sh: line 208: type: file: not found
2017-10-23 14:05:39.047700634 ERROR: Cannot find required programs:  file
==== Stack trace ====
Trace 0: /usr/sbin/rear:514 main
Message: Cannot find required programs:  file
== End stack trace ==
2017-10-23 14:05:39.061749006 Running exit tasks.

Any idea on whats going on here, I have tried this on brand new install a few times with same error

gozora commented at 2017-10-23 19:39:¶

As ReaR already stated you are missing required program file.
sudo apt-get install file should do the trick.

I guess that not all program needed by ReaR are enforced during installation. To avoid repeating rear mkbackup -> error -> package install situations, I install LSB package that contains almost all progs needed by ReaR.
It should be sudo apt-get install lsb-base on Debian.

V.

tropicaljoe commented at 2017-10-23 20:10:¶

Thanks again, I really though "file" was missing another piece to it and never though to just install "file", once added that did the trick, thanks for the quick support and tip on the LSB package

gozora commented at 2017-10-23 20:37:¶

Anytime ;-)

Is it OK 4 you when I close this issue?

tropicaljoe commented at 2017-10-23 21:21:¶

I am good please close and thank you!

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]