Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Problem with non-root installation

[Eur Ing Chris Green]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:37:34PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> I have built and installed rdiff-backup on a BSD system where I have a
> shell login account but no root access.
> 
> I did:-
>     python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME
> 
> and it all appeared to work OK (once I'd installed librsync and got
> the build to 'see' it).
> 
> However when I try and run rdiff-backup I get the following:-
> 
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "/home/isbd/bin/rdiff-backup", line 20, in ?
>         import rdiff_backup.Main
>     ImportError: No module named rdiff_backup.Main
> 
> Where should the modules be?  I can't find any trace of them.
> 
It's OK, I've found them, in /home/isbd/lib/python, I then had to do
some trickery to add that to the python path when rdiff-backup is
called remotely via ssh but all is now well and I can backup to the
remote system.

-- 
Chris Green