Installing Duplicati on Linux (Ubuntu / LinuxLite)

How-To
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Agree with @JonMikelV that @Beckfield probably isn’t on systemd. Check PID 1. It will probably be upstart. Fortunately both newer systems provide support for old sysvinit scripts, and Duplicati source has an example.

Steps might be:

  1. cd /tmp

  2. curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/duplicati/duplicati/master/Installer/debian/init-script-example.sh

  3. who -r to see what run level you’re at. Maybe you’re at 5

  4. Look over script if you like. See at top it should start at 5

  5. chmod 755 init-script-example.sh

  6. sudo cp init-script-example.sh /etc/init.d/duplicati

  7. rm init-script-example.sh

  8. Restart

  9. ps -ef | grep DuplicatiServer

  10. If it didn’t come up, see if it’s in /etc/rc5.d. If not, try sudo update-rc.d duplicati defaults, then a restart

Alternatively, can you upgrade your OS, which is only supported until April 2019 (like its underlying Ubuntu)?