Help for Beginners: A Simple Way of Installing the Latest Version of Rsync?

s.noble at free.fr s.noble at free.fr
Tue May 8 15:59:10 MDT 2012


Hello,
Thanks again for your helpful comments. They're appreciated.
SN


> Yes you must install at minumum the Command Line Tools, this will include all
> compiler nedded to construct the programm (gcc, make and others)
>
> After rsync has been installed, the folder can be trashed.
>
> The new programm is accessible in /usr/local/bin. With the which command you
> can find same programms installed on your machine:
>
> 	which -a rsync
> 	/usr/bin/rsync			### original 2.6.9
> 	/usr/local/bin/rsync		### new 3.0.9
>
> When a new release of rsync is out, simply install it with the same step:
> 	./configure
> 	make
> 	sudo make install
>
> ciao!
> Banana
>
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thanks. I appreciate the help. I'd never have figured out those steps
> > on my own (not a guru yet...). I was hoping to avoid completely anything
> from
> > Apple's Developer Tools, but, apparently, this is not possible.
> >
> > Just to verify two things:
> >
> > (1) Once your instructions have been followed (leaving Apple's version of
> rsync
> > untouched), the latest version of rsync will be installed into its own
> folder
> > (if I've understood correctly from reading elsewhere:
> '/usr/local/bin/rsync')
> > and, in order to run it, one has to type '/usr/local/bin/rsync' (without
> the
> > inverted commas, of course). And to get the new man pages, you have to type
> > '/usr/local/bin/rsync man'. Is this correct?
> >
> > (2) When a new version of rsync is subsequently released, how would a
> novice
> > then update the version we just installed to the new version?
> >
> > Thanks again for your help.
> >
> > SN
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> hello,
> >>
> >> 1. Install only Command Line Tools from Xcode (if you don't want the
> complete
> >> package)
> >> 2. Download rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz from rsync.samba.org and untar it*.
> >> 3. Go into the rsync folder with the Terminal (cd Downloads/rsync-3.0.9)
> >> 4. Run: ./configure
> >> 5. Run: make
> >> 6. Run: sudo make install
> >>
> >> *tar xf rsync-3.0.9.tar.gz or with the Finder
> >>
> >> If you want rsync 3.0.9 replace the original (Apple-modified) 2.6.9, run
> step
> >> 4 with the option "prefix": ./configure --prefix=/usr
> >> But this is not recommended.
> >>
> >> Good luck future guru
> >> Banana
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Please bear with me because I'm no command-line guru. Quite the opposite.
> >>>
> >>> I was wondering if there existed a simple, straightforward way for a
> novice
> >> to
> >>> install the latest version of rsync (3.0.9) onto Mac OS X. After
> searching
> >>> around the Web, I found that the following site offers such an installer
> --
> >>> http://www.themacplace.co.uk/downloads.html --
> >>> but the proposed version of rsync (3.0.6) is not quite the latest one.
> >>>
> >>> I'm using rsync to back up Mac boxes to a Linux box. I learnt about rsync
> >> and
> >>> how to use it, then got it working, only to find that Apple ships OS X
> with
> >> a
> >>> very outdated version of the programme (2.6.9), causing problems, for
> >> example,
> >>> with extended attributes.
> >>>
> >>> Being a novice, I have no need to install Apple's XCode (the MacPorts
> >> programme,
> >>> on macports.org, would appear to require this, as far as I can
> understand),
> >> and
> >>> I would just like a simple way of getting the latest version of rsync up
> >> and
> >>> running.
> >>>
> >>> Any help anyone would be kind enough to provide would be much
> appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> S.N.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >
> >
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