sbackup for 18.04 LTS

[Jay Ridgley]

THANKS, I will give it a try...

Jay

On 3/6/20 11:55 AM, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> Jay Ridgley wrote:
> 
>>   What happened to sbackup?
>>
>> I recently updated one of my systems to the Beaver... Was sbackup
>> dropped from the release? I have used it for several years (16.04
>> LTS and before) but it appears to no longer be available.
> 
> It appears to have been dropped after 16.04:
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/sbackup
> 
> According to this bug report, it was dropped from Ubuntu because it
> uses gksu, which has been deprecated:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1768648
> 
> The details page for the sbackup package is here:
> 
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/sbackup-gtk
> 
> You could reach out to the maintainers if you have any questions.
> There's also a list of similar packages in the bottom right of that
> page in case you want to try some of them out.
> 
>> How can I get it?
> 
> There's a download link on the package's detail page above. It will
> give you a .deb file you can install. That .deb file might not work,
> though, for the reason mentioned above. The bug report above gives a
> work-around that should work.
> 


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