On 23/08/17 20:52, Dan Norton wrote: > Debian 8 is what I use. You must have snipped off that part of my post. Right. You mentioned it in your very first post in this thread, but I skipped over it. My bad. > $ sudo gpg --keyserver 'hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net' --fingerprint '6D5B EF9A DD20 7580 5747 B70F 9F88 FB52 FAF7 B393' > [sudo] password for dan: > gpg: /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created > gpg: error reading key: public key not found Ah, sorry. The correct command is “gpg --keyserver 'hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net' --recv-keys 'FINGERPRINT'” (that is, replace “--fingerprint” with “--recv-keys”). > where have I seen that before? :-) > > Since borg is a self-contained binary, perhaps it does not need to be > formally declared as a package in Debian 8. There is no relation between “is self-contained binary” and whether it is in Debian. Again, borgbackup is available in Debian 8, but you have to enable backports. Moreover, Debian package borgbackups is not a self-contained binary. It uses the package manager to install the dependencies, just as any other package. It makes more sense this way when it is installed through the package manager. > The problem is "how can one > verify the download before moving it into /user/local/bin" as > recommended by the author? By the way, I recommend to use GNU Stow <https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/> when installing packages manually. It makes administration much easier when several packages are installed, and more so when upgrading or deleting packages. The point is to keep each “package” (roughly, any program distributed and installed as a whole; this is unrelated to packages as in apt-get) in a directory exclusively of its own use under /usr/local/stow, or any other directory. Then GNU Stow makes symbolic links from the directories where the system expect the package to be (e.g.: /usr/local/bin) to the place where the package is actually installed. This way you do not have to remember which files belong to which package when uninstalling a manually installed package. GNU Stow will also display a warning if you try to install (using GNU Stow) packages that have colliding files, instead of having them override eachother as would happen when doing “make install”. Regards. -- Do not eat animals, respect them as you respect people. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+(become+OR+eat)+vegan
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