Installation/Amanda's Requirements

Amanda can optionally make use of the following packages to back up different types of clients or clients with different filesystem dumping programs.

• GNU-tar: Use GNU tar 1.15 or later version on Amanda clients. Earlier versions of GNU tar (some versions of 1.13 and 1.14) are known to have problems.

GNU tar can be downloaded from http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html#downloading

• Samba: Samba allows Unix systems to talk to Windows clients. Amanda can back up Microsoft Windows clients using samba. Read Backup PC hosts using Samba for configuration tips and known limitations.

• Perl: If you wish to make use of some of the scripts that come with Amanda, you will need to install Perl.

http://www.perl.org/get.html.

• Awk: One of the programs included in this package is amplot, which reads a data file that Amanda generates for each dump and translates that information in it into a nice picture that can be used to determine how your installation is doing and if any parameters need to be changed. To use amplot, you need a version of awk that understands command line variable substitutions, such as nawk or gawk, which is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.1.1.tar.gz

• GNUplot: Amplot also required that gnuplot be installed on your system. Gnuplot is available at ftp://ftp.gnuplot.org/pub/gnuplot

• readline library: amrecover command optionally uses the readline library for its command-line edition mechanisms. (If you use a package-based distribution, check for the package readline-devel-X.Y.rpm.) This library itself requires either termcap, curses or ncurses. termcap is preferred, and both libraries can be obtained from:

           ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-5.0.tar.gz
           ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/termcap/termcap-1.3.1.tar.gz

• Build tools (autoconf, automake, bison): If you are an Amanda developer, you may need to install the following tools. Autoconf and automake are required if you are going to rebuild the Makefiles and auto configuration scripts. Bison is only needed if you are going to work on the index server and client code.

           ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53.tar.gz 
           ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.6.3.tar.gz 
           ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bison/bison-1.27.tar.gz 
           ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/flex/flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz