Retrospect Client

[Ben Ricker]

It will not work on ppc. The binaries are not compatible. Nothiing you
can do about it either.

Ben Ricker

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 09:42, Chris Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone managed to install the Dantz Retrospect Backup Client (v 6 or
> 6.5) on yellowdog linux 3. Dantz claim that it will work with all Red
> Hat distributions above 7, on i386 hardware. I thought since YDL 3 is a
> port of RedHat 9 it might work, even though YDL runs on PPC hardware....
> but it didn't. I can't get it to work anyway.
> 
> The install script they provide gives you some feedback:
> 
> [root@hal root]# ./Install.sh
> Install Retrospect Client? (y/n): y
> 
> ./Install.sh: line 119: /usr/local/dantz/client/retroclient: cannot
> execute binary file
> 
> Adding RETROSPECT_HOME to system profile and login scripts...Done!
> Before attempting to use any of the GUI components of the Retrospect
> Client,
> you must have both the RETROSPECT_HOME and DISPLAY variables set.  The
> RETROSPECT_HOME variable should point to /usr/local/dantz/client.  We
> have
> modified your /etc/profile and /etc/.login files to set this value for
> future
> logins.  The retrospect client launched as part of this installation
> process
> will also have this variable set.  However, if you kill that client and
> restart it without logging out, you will need to set these variables
> manually.
> Starting client as daemon...
> 
> /usr/local/dantz/client/rcl: line 20:
> /usr/local/dantz/client/retroclient: cannot execute binary file
> 
> Installation was successful, but Retrospect Client for Linux could not
> be started. If this is an upgrade, please wait 5 minutes, then start
> the client manually by running  $ /usr/local/dantz/client/rcl start
> 
> But the I can never get the retroclient daemon to start, it always fails
> with a "cannot execute binary file" error.
> 
> I have also tried the rpm installer which fails because of a lack of
> dependency "ld-linux.so.2"??
> 
> I'm guessing that my efforts are in vain, as the "installer" they
> provide is merely a shell script that places other scripts and binaries
> in various places, and does not actually compile from source.
> 
> Anyone got this to work?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Chris Johnson
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