Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin, and maybe with WSL). Patches to
support other platforms are welcome.
+ - Until resolved, a [glibc bug](https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26034)
+ might cause bup to crash on startup for some (unusual) command line
+ argument values, when bup is configured to use Python 3.
+
- Any items in "Things that are stupid" below.
```sh
apt-get install python2.7-dev python-fuse
- apt-get install python-pyxattr python-pylibacl
- apt-get install linux-libc-dev
+ apt-get install python-pyxattr
+ apt-get install pkg-config linux-libc-dev libacl1-dev
apt-get install acl attr
- apt-get install python-tornado # optional
+ apt-get install libreadline-dev # optional (bup ftp)
+ apt-get install python-tornado # optional (bup web)
```
On CentOS (for CentOS 6, at least), this should be sufficient (run
```sh
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
- yum install python python-devel
- yum install fuse-python pyxattr pylibacl
+ yum install python python-devel libacl-devel
+ yum install fuse-python pyxattr
yum install perl-Time-HiRes
+ yum install readline-devel # optional (bup ftp)
+ yum install python-tornado # optional (bup web)
```
In addition to the default CentOS repositories, you may need to add
- RPMForge (for fuse-python) and EPEL (for pyxattr and pylibacl).
+ RPMForge (for fuse-python) and EPEL (for pyxattr).
On Cygwin, install python, make, rsync, and gcc4.