Installation of rustic may seem complicated

[LuckyFrost]

Installing rustic is not the most trivial task.
rhel 9
1)

wget https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic/releases/download/v0.5.4/rustic-v0.5.4-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
tar xvzf rustic-v0.5.4-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
./rustic
./rustic: /lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.35' not found (required by ./rustic)

cargo --version
cargo 1.73.0 (9c4383fb5 2023-08-26)

cargo-binstall -V
1.4.4

/root/.cargo/bin/cargo-binstall rustic-rs
 WARN Failed to read git credential file /root/.git-credentials err=Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }
 WARN Failed to retrieve token from `gh auth token` err=Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }
 INFO resolve: Resolving package: 'rustic-rs'
ERROR Fatal error:
  × For crate rustic-rs: Failed to parse cargo manifest: TOML parse error at line 44, column 11
  │    |
  │ 44 | pkg-fmt = "tar.gz"
  │    |           ^^^^^^^^
  │ unknown variant `tar.gz`, expected one of `tar`, `tbz2`, `tgz`, `txz`, `tzstd`, `zip`, `bin`
  │
  ├─▶ Failed to parse cargo manifest: TOML parse error at line 44, column 11
  │      |
  │   44 | pkg-fmt = "tar.gz"
  │      |           ^^^^^^^^
  │   unknown variant `tar.gz`, expected one of `tar`, `tbz2`, `tgz`, `txz`, `tzstd`, `zip`, `bin`
  │
  ├─▶ TOML parse error at line 44, column 11
  │      |
  │   44 | pkg-fmt = "tar.gz"
  │      |           ^^^^^^^^
  │   unknown variant `tar.gz`, expected one of `tar`, `tbz2`, `tgz`, `txz`, `tzstd`, `zip`, `bin`
  │
  ╰─▶ TOML parse error at line 44, column 11
         |
      44 | pkg-fmt = "tar.gz"
         |           ^^^^^^^^
      unknown variant `tar.gz`, expected one of `tar`, `tbz2`, `tgz`, `txz`, `tzstd`, `zip`, `bin`

3. And even cargo install is not the most trivial for those who have not touched rust. At the beginning I did this

dnf install cargo
cargo install rustic-rs
    Updating crates.io index
  Installing rustic-rs v0.6.0
error: failed to compile `rustic-rs v0.6.0`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/tmp/cargo-installLmGHaW`

Caused by:
  package `clap_builder v4.4.7` cannot be built because it requires rustc 1.70.0 or newer, while the currently active rustc version is 1.66.1

Yes, of course, I spent a some time getting more recent versions of cargo and was able to install using the third method, but it is too complicated compared to restic.

[aawsome]

Thanks for opening this issue!

About 1): did you try the musl Versions? Those should work without glibc requirements. But have a look at the nightly builds!

About 2): I think this should be fixed by #919 in the next release.

[simonsan]

@LuckyFrost In addition: You can use the nightly binaries from here: https://github.com/rustic-rs/nightly

[LuckyFrost]

Thanks, I just checked musl - at first glance it works.
I also tried using self-update on it - is this how it should be?

./rustic self-update
using no config file (./rustic.toml doesn't exist)
Checking target-arch... x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
Checking current version... v0.5.4
Checking latest released version... v0.6.0
New release found! v0.5.4 --> v0.6.0
New release is *NOT* compatible
Error: ReleaseError: No asset found for target: `x86_64-unknown-linux-musl`

[simonsan]

Self-update doesn't currently work, as we are working on the build pipeline.