rsync - May 2012 - 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very outdated version of the programme (2.6.9), causing problems, for example,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.

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.
> 
> 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 very outdated version of the programme (2.6.9), causing problems, for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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