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fwbackups - Installation

Linux

If fwbackups is not available in your distribution's repositories (see subheadings below), you may install fwbackups via the source tarball. Please ensure you have the following dependencies installed on your system:

  • gettext
  • A cron service such as dcron, vixie-cron or cronie
  • Python
  • PyGTK (including Glade support)
  • pycrypto (often called python-crypto)
  • paramiko (often called python-paramiko)
  • Optional: libnotify bindings for Python (often called python-notify)

Fedora Linux

fwbackups is included in the Fedora Linux repositories. Simply open the Add/Remove Software utility and search for "fwbackups".

Ubuntu Linux

Pre-built .deb packages for fwbackups version 1.43.3rc4 are available on the download page. They are currently under review in REVU, so until they are approved you may wish to install fwbackups from source in order to obtain the most recent version.

To install fwbackups from source on Ubuntu, download the source tarball to your home folder and then open a terminal session (select Applications > System Tools > Terminal). Type the following commands into the terminal:

sudo apt-get install gettext autotools-dev intltool python-crypto python-paramiko python-gtk2 cron
tar xfj fwbackups-1.43.3rc5.tar.bz2
cd fwbackups-1.43.3rc5
./configure --prefix=/usr
make && sudo make install

 

OS X

Although fwbackups does run on OS X, at the moment it requires a bit of manual work to get started. To install PyGTK on OS X, see the GTK-OSX project. It provides PyGTK as well as many other dependencies required to run fwbackups. However, some dependencies such as python-paramiko and python-crypto still need to be installed manually.

 

Windows

fwbackups packages most of the dependencies for Windows in an easy-to-use installer. Simply visit the Downloads page and use the full setup installer to install Python 2.6, PyCron 0.5.9 as well as the required Python modules and GTK+ runtime.

Due to cryptography software export restrictions in the location where Diffingo's websites are hosted, Diffingo Solutions Inc. cannot distribute binary versions of the paramiko or pycrypto libraries. However, Achim of Qustodium has kindly offered to provide the fwbackups cryptography module installer on his personal website. Click here to download the cryptography module installer for fwbackups 1.43.3rc4. This installer will install both paramiko and pycrypto for use with fwbackups on your system.

If you choose not to use the cryptographic module installer, you must install these two libraries manually after having run the fwbackups setup file:

  • To install Paramiko, download the latest release ZIP file (paramiko-1.7.6.zip) and copy the paramiko folder inside of paramiko-1.7.6 into the Lib/site-packages folder in your Python installation (Usually C:\Program Files\Python26\Lib\site-packages).
  • To install PyCrypto, download and run this (pycrypto-2.0.1.win32-py2.6.exe) executable file.