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s.noble | 8 May 2012 15:40
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Help for Beginners: A Simple Way of Installing the Latest Version of Rsync?

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very outdated version of the programme (2.6.9), causing problems, for example,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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Flex Banana | 8 May 2012 15:48
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Re: Help for Beginners: A Simple Way of Installing the Latest Version of Rsync?

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

On May 8, 2012, at 3:40 PM, s.noble <at> free.fr wrote:

> 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.
>
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s.noble | 8 May 2012 16:25
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Re: Help for Beginners: A Simple Way of Installing the Latest Version of Rsync?

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

Quoting Flex Banana <flex.banana <at> bluewin.ch>:

> 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)
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Flex Banana | 8 May 2012 16:34
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Re: Help for Beginners: A Simple Way of Installing the Latest Version of Rsync?

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

On May 8, 2012, at 4:25 PM, s.noble <at> free.fr wrote:

> 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:
>
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s.noble | 8 May 2012 23:59
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Re: Help for Beginners: A Simple Way of Installing the Latest Version of Rsync?

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
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