PaulU Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 I'm a linux newbie, so still fumbling my way forward at this stage. I've installed lubuntu onto an old 32-bit laptop & am now looking at installation & configuration. There appears to be two methods to install. Either find the appropriate package to download & install, such as.. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tuxpoldo/btsync sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install btsync or, to simply download & unpack, such as... tar xzpf btsync_glibc23_x64.tar.gz Are there pros vs. cons of either approach ? (I followed the latter as I couldn't get the package method to work. Google is littered with different examples of package install, from past versions & years, so I'm just firing off blindly... and missing my target) At the moment I have to login & execute btsync manually ./btsync from my home directory. Can anyone advise how I can get it to execute on boot ? I'm planning to remove as much irrelevant software as possible - this machine will be used only for syncing - is there anything important that BTsync relies upon that I ought not delete ? Thanks all, PaulU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 @PaulU It's more "Linux way" to install it from repo and it is also more convenient to control Sync in that way as well as keep it up-to-date. The main drawback is that now package is no longer supported (although, our community member @Silvenga provided a fork for this package IIRC, see this topic for details). Extracting and startup of Sync is very simple, although less convenient as you'll have to take care of automatic startup yourself as well as manually update it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulU Posted February 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 Thanks RomanZ. That nailed it :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moe Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 Hey guys I wanted to point out that there now is an official repository. You can check out the information here in the blog post: http://blog.getsync.com/2016/02/18/official-linux-packages-for-sync-now-available/ Happy syncing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iswrong Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 1 hour ago, Moe said: You can check out the information here in the blog post: http://blog.getsync.com/2016/02/18/official-linux-packages-for-sync-now-available/ Note: you currently don't want to copy and paste the instructions for Debian/Ubuntu, the quotes are non-ASCII quotes, the dash in the command to add the key is a non-ASCII dash (as a result, the output of wget will not be on stdout). It will work fine if you type over the instructions in plain ASCII ;). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billgreenwood Posted February 24, 2016 Report Share Posted February 24, 2016 Hi, Does BTSync on this system support any kind of file system notification? Thanks Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted February 24, 2016 Report Share Posted February 24, 2016 @billgreenwood Yes, if your glibc is newer than 2.3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billgreenwood Posted February 24, 2016 Report Share Posted February 24, 2016 Thanks @RomanZ That is very interesting. I will try to run this on my FreeNAS server inside a Jail on a lubuntu os. Cheers B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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