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[Michael Terry <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello! Deja Dup uses meson, which is what GNOME uses in a lot of
packages these days.
Try doing the following:
sudo apt build-dep deja-dup
meson builddir
ninja -C builddir

You can pass configure arguments to meson -- http://mesonbuild.com/ has
documentation.
FYI, I did just release 38.3 with some more UI & symlink fixes.

All that said, compiling source yourself is prone to failure and
collision with your local system. Another option is to try the testing
PPA that has already built packages. Though it only goes back to 18.04.
https://code.launchpad.net/~deja-dup-team/+archive/ubuntu/testing

Hope that helps!
-mt

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, at 17:31, The Russells wrote:
> I’m trying to install the latest version of Deja-Dup (38.2) into
> Ubuntu Server 18.04 and Ubuntu Desktop 16.04.  I have downloaded the
> deja-dup-38.2.tar.xz file to my /usr/local/src folder.  I extracted it
> using Ubuntu’s archive utility.  Now, I don’t know what to do next.  *
> *Don’t see any of the typical installation files (configure, make,
> etc.) in any of the extracted folders.>  


> Will you provide me with details of the steps to go from the extracted
> files/folders to a complete installation?  Should I uninstall the
> Ubuntu supplied version (34.?) before installing 38.2?  I can’t get
> the Ubuntu supplied version to work properly and I hope that V 38.2
> will solve those problems.>  


> I have done a lot of web searching  and have not been able to see any
> details on installing from a “tar.xz” file.>  


> Thank you very much.


>  


> Kenneth**


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