Unclear on Debian dar version

[g8ecj]

Standard Jessie install has dar-2.4.15, gdar require > 2.4.8 but configure complains
configure: error: Package requirements (libdar >= 5.3.0) were not met:
No package 'libdar' found

locate libdar returns
/usr/lib/libdar64.so.5000
/usr/lib/libdar64.so.5000.6.2
which has confused me even more!!
Can you help?

[peckto]

Hi,

First you need to check if you have installed the development files for libdar (libdar-dev).
Additionally you must enable the configure switch --enable-libdar64
because Debian and Ubuntu uses the 64 bit version of libdar.

I hope that solvers you problem.

[peckto]

You can also install gdar as a packet:
https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home:peckto&package=gdar

[g8ecj]

All built now but having issues with the UI in so far as there is a button on the top right with no label that I can toggle on/off but I've no idea what it does.
I'm running under KDE so maybe I'm missing some sort of hover tooltip that would appear in unity/gnome
When I extract I get the full path so I can't restore a sub-directory, only the complete tree.

[peckto]

The toggle button shows or hides hidden files, this has no influence on the extraction process,
hidden files are always extracted. But you are right, I should add a tooltip, thanks.

You extract that file or folder you have selected.
At the moment, the full path to the selected item is restored at the destination.
I'm planing to add an option to change this behaviour.
When using dar, you can use the option --flat
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You can also get more information about gdar on the gdar website:
http://peckto.de/gdar/

[g8ecj]

Many thanks for your time - gdar has made the extraction of files a lot simpler. I now have a working copy of Eclipse again after a bad update!!

I don't think the 'flat' option is quite what I had in mind. I read this as meaning that ALL files are restored to a single directory whereas I as thinking of restoring a part of the backup tree (a branch?) to a directory with the original structure maintained but with the prefix removed.

[peckto]

I'm glad I could help you.

You are right about the 'flat' option. Unfortunately I could not find a 'remove prefix' option for dar.
This option could be quite useful, I will ask the dar developer about it.