Ubuntu
restic package

Restic binary is in both /bin and /usr/bin

Bug #1901409 reported by Jivan Pal
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restic (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

After `apt install restic`, doing `where restic` shows:

```
/usr/bin/restic
/bin/restic
```

Neither is a symlink to the other; they are copies of the same binary. Is this a bug, or is this intentional? If intentional, why is the binary included in two different places?

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Júlio Maranhão (julio-maranhao) wrote :

I cannot replicate your bug. I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop. The command "apt-get install restic" only puts the binary (0.12.1) in /usr/bin folder.

I don't recognize the "where" command. Is it "whereis"?

"which restic" returns only "/usr/bin/restic".
"whereis restic" returns "restic: /usr/bin/restic /usr/share/man/man1/restic.1.gz"

I also tested the packages from kinetic (0.13.1) and lunar (0.14). No bug found.

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Jivan Pal (jivanpal) wrote :

Not a bug; closing. Seems like this is standard fare for Ubuntu. The paths `/bin/restic` and `/usr/bin/restic` are hardlinks to the same inode.

> I don't recognize the "where" command. Is it "whereis"?

`where` shows all paths that a command is found at within `$PATH`, in the order they're found. It's a builtin command of many shells, such as ZSH.

Changed in restic (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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