How to compile and install Tarsnap on a Ubuntu/Debian Linux

Tarsnap is a secure online backup service that uses tar and gpg to create encrypted, incremental backups of your data. Tarsnap is designed to be efficient and easy to use, and it offers a number of advanced features such as deduplication, compression, and data integrity checking.

To compile and install Tarsnap on a Ubuntu or Debian Linux system, you will need to install a few dependencies and then compile Tarsnap from source. Here is a step-by-step guide to get you started:

1. Install the dependencies. Tarsnap requires a few libraries and tools in order to compile and run. You can install these dependencies by entering the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libpcre3-dev

2. Download the Tarsnap source code. You can download the latest version of Tarsnap from the Tarsnap website (https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html). Alternatively, you can use the wget command to download the source code directly from the Tarsnap server:

wget https://www.tarsnap.com/download/tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.40.tgz

This will download the Tarsnap source code to your current directory.

3. Extract the Tarsnap source code. Use the tar command to extract the Tarsnap source code from the downloaded tarball:

tar xvf tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.40.tgz

This will create a new directory called tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.40 containing the Tarsnap source code.

4. Compile and install Tarsnap. Change to the Tarsnap source directory and run the configure script:

cd tarsnap-autoconf-1.0.40
./configure

This will configure the Tarsnap build process for your system. Once the configuration is complete, you can compile and install Tarsnap by running the following commands:

make
sudo make install

This will compile Tarsnap and install it to the /usr/local/bin directory.

Once Tarsnap is installed, you can start using it to create backups of your data. To get started, you will need to create a Tarsnap account and create a Tarsnap key file. You can find more information about these steps in the Tarsnap documentation (https://www.tarsnap.com/docs.html).