Running SpiderOak on Suse

Hello,

I’m a bit of a beginner when it comes to linux, so bare with me.

Our company recently purchased SpiderOak backup subscription. Unfortunately, I didn’t pay attention to the fact that it doesn’t officially support SUSE.

I read that you can use Alien to convert it - I got alien installed, but always received errors when converting.

INPUT:
alien -r spideroak.deb

[QUOTE]OUTPUT:
ar: spideroak.deb is not a valid archive
gzip: stdin: unexpected end of Archive
[/QUOTE]

I tried the Slackware version, neither would convert, giving me an EOF error. I can open the archives and browse them, but if I try to extract them, I get a EOF error as well. I tried running the Ubuntu RPM, and got a dependency error.

Can someone please help? https://spideroak.com/download/ You can download all the different Linux versions for free. I REALLY need to get this working…

I also thought about creating a virtual machine running XP - but I seriously want to avoid that.

We are running SUSE Enterprise server - not sure which version.

Thanks for your post and your interest in SpiderOak.

We’ll be providing native OpenSUSE packages for SpiderOak very soon. If you contact SpiderOak support we’ll get you a snapshot of the OpenSUSE package ASAP. We can also help you get alien going. We love hearing from customers so please don’t hesitate to email or call.

my guess is someone in Novell (or the openSUSE community) ought to
want to hot foot it to <https://spideroak.com/> and OFFER to build
them a openSUSE friendly rpm!!! and/or add it to a repo

while waiting for all of that to happen, you can TRY this…i think it
will work (i’d try it here, but then working here does not guarantee
working there!)

using firefox (i do NOT know how all the other browsers will handle
this, so!!)

-on first page <https://spideroak.com/> hover mouse over “Fedora 10”
and click

-on the second page: read minimum system requirements! if you have
them, click “Download” (even if you have openSUSE 64 do NOT click it)

two things will happen

  1. a new page pops up, do NOT follow any of the instructions on the
    “Installing SpiderOak.” page (even when downloading an rpm, they are
    giving deb instructions [brain dead!], instead

  2. firefox will pop up a "Opening SpiderOak-95blahblah window asking
    what it should do with the file

  • select “Save file” and click ok

  • firefox will pop up a file save dialog, [THINK] put the file where
    you can get to it easily (your Desktop is fine), click “Save”

-when the whirring and blinking stops there should be a
SpiderOak9530blahblahblah.rpm file

it IS designed for Fedora, but it MAY be ok, maybe…continue with:

  • right click on the file, in the resulting pop up menu, select
    “Actions” then “Install with YaST” and cross your fingers…

if your machine is connected to the internet, and you have your
repositories set up in accordance with the recommendations here:
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/401696-newbies-suse-11-1-pre-installation-please-read.html#post1908012
that is JUST FOUR repos enabled

then if you are living right, YaST will resolve all depedencies and
you are good to go…REPORT BACK…

if it does not install smoothly, just follow the YaST hints and
cancel…you can run rpm later with the magic UNinstall keys to clean
it out…


goldie
Give a hacker a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach man and you feed him for a lifetime.

Note: Accuracy, completeness, legality, or usefulness of this posting
may be illusive.

Thank you for your help! I downloaded it - however, when I right click, and go to install, I don’t have a YAST option. I forced it to use YAST, but then YAST never loads.

I went to YAST to add the software repos - but YaST -> Software -> Software Repositories doesn’t exist.

By the way, I discovered I am running SLES - I think it’s version 11.

In a terminal window, cd to folder where the Spider…rpm was saved, and issue command below:

su -c ‘rpm -iUvh Spider…rpm --test’
Enter rootpassword when asked for.
The command will list needed packages and files to be installed. Install these via Software Installer, and try again. When the command runs OK, remove the ‘–test’ from the command and it will install.

hmm well it showed me a couple things

FS1:/data # su -c ‘rpm -iUvh SpiderOak.rpm --test’

[QUOTE]libcrypto.so.7 is needed by SpiderOak-9530-1.fc10.i836
libdbus-1.so.3 is needed by…
libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0) is needed by …
libssl.so.7 is needed by…
dbus is needed by …

[/QUOTE]

I couldn’t find really any of those libraries on my computer - only the ‘dbus’ and it said it was already installed.

I googled them, and was able to find all the RPM’s for that stuff, but the first and the last one said they were already installed. The rest gave me some “invalid RPM” error.

> By the way, I discovered I am running SLES - I think it’s version 11.

can you do this in a terminal and tell us for sure, please?

cat /etc/SuSE-release


goldie
Give a hacker a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach man and you feed him for a lifetime.

Note: Accuracy, completeness, legality, or usefulness of this posting
may be illusive.

I was mistaken, it’s 10

thenior wrote:
> I was mistaken, it’s 10

ok, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10…(aka SLES 10)

just to let you know, you are welcome here, however you need to
recognize that SLES is a commercial product of Novell and they host
support for SLES/SLED at forums.novell.com

this is forums.opensuse.org–most folks here are on openSUSE 11.1 amd
we are busy hammering out the bugs and kinks of the code which will
eventually be finished, highly polished and released as SLED/S 12…

our experiences might not translate into good help for your several
years older code base…

if i were you i’d listen to the folks over on the Novell forum…

that is not to say that we don’t have some very qualified folks
here…just that most here have little or no experience with the
Novell product…

ymmv


goldie