Requirements

KBACKUP requires some other software to be installed on your system. However, most of them should be available on any properly installed system. If you are using a Slackware--based LINUX , all you need is to install  afio(1) on your machine.

The programs required by KBACKUP are:

•  dialog : the dialog program is being used for doing all the user interaction. It is absolutely required for running KBACKUP .
•  gtar : the GNU tape archiver. A normal  tar(1) will not do! Under LINUX ,  tar(1) is GNU's  tar , so do not worry.
•  afio : the archive program. It is KBACKUP 's preferred archive handler, somehow more powerful than  tar , but less well tested.
•  grep ,  fgrep ,  sed : some text processing programs that should be installed on every proper system.

In fact, you do not need both,  tar(1) and  afio(1) . KBACKUP can use either of them to handle its archives. Afio is strongly recommended.

In the file  paths , you can set environment variables pointing to the various programs. Just in case the standard settings should not work for you.

KBACKUP should run with any Bourne Shell ( sh(1) ) compatible shell. However, I have mainly tested it using the Bourne-Again Shell ( bash(1) ), therefore I cannot guarantee that it will work with others, but I do not see any problems. Especially, it appears to be working well with the rather small  ash(1) shell, which is of interest for putting it onto boot disks.