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#3705 Remote control not downloading backups on linux

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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:55 CST

jures
Hello,

I have installed Akeeba Remote Control 4.0.3 on ubuntu 10.10. Everything is working fine except the remote does not download the backup files. It stands still at 0%.

On my macbook the remote downloads the files.
On the site the new akeeba 3.2.b4 is installed.

Any ideas?

dlb
Nicholas - I was able to reproduce this issue with a single site backup. The backup file is only 8.4Mb. This is a fresh install of 4.0.3/Linux32, not an upgrade from 4.0.1. The backup completes, but the download does not start. The Cancel Download button doesn't seem to do anything, but closing Remote and restarting clears the downloading message.

jures - I reported this issue several days ago but we thought it was caused by the fact that I was backing up ten sites at once.


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nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I can reproduce it too, on a stock Ubuntu 10.10 installation. Titanium is trying to load the Python 2.5 libraries, but all newest Linux installations have Python 2.6. I am trying to find a workaround. Most likely I'll update the documentation with instructions on creating necessary symlinks to let Titanium work.

So much for writing cross-platform applications...

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jures
Hi,

At least we know what the problem is :D.
Can you pls post when the solution is finished.

Tnx
Jure

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I came to this workaround, which certainly works on Ubuntu 10.10. I guess that other Linux distributions require a similar workaround:

1. Start the application for the first time and choose "Install to my home directory". When it finishes, close the application.
2. Make sure Python 2.6 is installed:
sudo apt-get install python2.6

3. Create the necessary symlinks
	ln -s /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 ~/.titanium/runtime/linux/1.1.0/libpython2.5.so.1.0

4. Relaunch the application

It should now work properly.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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user22541
Hey, I too can confirm that this works. I had the exact same problem, Googled it, and tried the solution. It worked for me. Downloading my backup via the Remote Control on Ubuntu right now.

Thanks! :)

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Excellent! Thank you for the feedback! I will be adding that to our documentation :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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