Hey everyone,
I use Deja Dup Backups to backup my computer every 3 days. On Sunday, I upgraded openSUSE Tumbleweed and today I got an error saying that the duplicity package needs to be installed.
I have tried a few things.
Uninstall then reinstall Deja Dup Backups
Uninstall duplicity then use Deja Dup Backups to install it
I did find this post from about [2 years ago[(Deja-dub: missing duplicity). From here, I tried using sudo rpm -e --nodeps duplicity then install through Deja Dup Backups.
From that same post, I tried installing gnome-packagekit (I use KDE Plasma so I did not already have it installed, and since I didnât have it installed before I couldnât uninstall it as the post suggests)
The end result is that Deja Dup Backups just keeps asking if it can install duplicity, which I already have. I have been using Deja Dup Backups for longer than I have been on openSUSE Tumbleweed, and as it is I have already been using that for over a year and a half. Does anyone have any other ideas? I would prefer to not use the Flatpak version of the application.
However, if I try to run sudo zypper in duplicity I get this:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'duplicity' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'duplicity-3.0.5-1.1.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.
I had this issue a while ago and I got rid of it by installing the Flatpak version. Iâm assuming you already know the Flatpak version works but you still donât want to use it. Right?
Yes, I read all of that. Packagekit is installed, but gnome-packagekit wasnât installed originally. They said they had to uninstall that, but either way none of their suggestions have any affect on my problem. Not sure what you mean by âsource repositoryâ, this is just in the regular openSUSE repositories. If they werenât enabled I couldnât install anything.
As I mentioned in the original post, I have tried that, and deja-dup does the same thing it does when duplicity is installed. It asks for my password, runs for a minute, then asks for it again. No matter how many times I participate in thr loop, it results in no change.
I do not know that it works. My experience with flatpak has ranged from terrible to functional but not great. Usually, if I cannot find a program I want to use with zypper, I consider compiling it myself before using flatpak.
Since you are using it, can you tell me if the flatpak version at least recognizes your previous backups?
All my current backups were made with the Flatpak version, so I canât give you an useful answer for that. I donât see why wouldnât it recognize your previous backups, though. In any case, I guess you can give it a try and uninstall it if it doesnât work for you.
