Re: Trying to install beta in CentOS 8 -- missing py3libacl, python3-pyxattr

[Robert Nichols]

On 1/11/20 4:03 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 1/11/20 3:00 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> > I am far, far away from getting this to install. "pip3 install pyxattr" fails 
> > with:
> >     acl.c:23:10: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
> >
> > All attempts to install rdiff-backup fail with:
> >     No matching distribution found for rdiff-backup-1.4.0{whatever I 
> > try}-linux_x86.64
> >
> > If I include the .whl suffix I just get "looks like a filename, but file does not 
> > exist".
> >
> > I am way out of my territory here. I'm afraid I have to ask for the exact 
> > keystrokes to
> > type, without any "VERSION" placeholders or "ignore slight differences in 
> > versioning"
> > comments. My distro is CentOS 8, 64 bit.  Python version is 3.6.8.
> >
> > I'd rather not wait for the official release in order to find the hard-link 
> > problems
> > that I am 99% sure I will find.
>
> OK, I got past installing the -devel packages needed to build pylibacl and 
> pyxattr.
> I am still no closer to intalling the rdiff-backup beta itself.

Well, I finally found the list of wheel files, picked the right one, and got 
rdiff-backup
installed in CentOS 8. Now I can begin testing.

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