Ubuntu
deja-dup package

  1. Bug #1641423
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1641423

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Naël (nathanael-naeri) wrote : Re: Back up failed with message: Failed to execute child process "duplicity" (No such file or directory)

@Michael:

> I added code to notice this case and prompt installation of duplicity

This code was not triggered in my case: I was setting up Déjà-Dup from the command line for a non-privileged user (I'm the privileged user on his machine). The first backup failed with "Failed to execute child process "duplicity" (No such file or directory)", which prompted me to investigate and install deja-dup-backend-gvfs.

Like Vej in comment 5 I vote for a hint in the error message - perhaps a hint that deja-dup-backend-gvfs must be installed? Coming from a previous release of Ubuntu, I really didn't expect this backend package to no longer be installed by default (along with its duplicity dependency) (but I agree dropping python2.7 is important).