Why is K3b missing in 2007

barrythai · 12-25-2006, 07:46 AM

I cannot believe the archive tool and diskcopy is omitted from
2007.

I have looked at a mirror and it is omitted from the packages.

How are you supposed to copy and backup your files without any archive tool.

jschiwal · 12-25-2006, 09:00 AM

I don't use Mandriva so I don't know whether or why it wouldn't be present unless config files are backed up automatically. However, a good program to backup to an extermal drive or a cd or dvd is dar. There is a kdar kde gui interface available. You can determine what you want backed up periodically, and have kdar export a shell script using dar to do that backup. You can use this script in a cron job if you want.

reddazz · 12-25-2006, 11:13 AM

As far as I know, k3b is available on Mandriva 2007 under System -> Archiving. Its also available in the official repos.

barrythai · 12-25-2006, 04:50 PM

Not in the 64 bit version.

I have downloaded the .bz2 but there is no archiving tool

what is the terminal command to unarchive this?

reddazz · 12-25-2006, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by barrythai

Not in the 64 bit version.

I have downloaded the .bz2 but there is no archiving tool

what is the terminal command to unarchive this?

I've just checked the 32 and 64 bit mirrors and they both have k3b in the main repo. You can download it from the 64 bit directory of this mirror.

barrythai · 12-26-2006, 04:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

I've just checked the 32 and 64 bit mirrors and they both have k3b in the main repo. You can download it from the 64 bit directory of this mirror.

Hi thanks tried that after you suggested it. However there is an unresolved as it asks for libk3b so which is not there whereas all the lib64k3b library is.

I guess that is why it has been left out of the 2007 64 bit version?

Ark is missing as well and I can't unzip the .bz2 file. I can do .gz but have forgotten the reverse of the bzip2 command?

reddazz · 12-26-2006, 09:54 AM

I am not sure why you are facing all these problems when the packages are in the Mandriva repositories. Are you using urpmi to install them?

Cara25 · 12-26-2006, 08:44 PM

Ark and K3b are there on the mandriva mirrors I use.
Try using the 32 bit libk3b files, they should work with the 64 bit OS.
Scott