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Backblaze B2: Linux distributions with out-of-box access (easy uploading)
Turbo_Pascal
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Pop!_OS (and, I presume, other Ubuntu-related distros) could not make it any easier to use B2. After typing the following command, a user simply authenticates and begins interacting with a bucket. One can begin uploading right away.
sudo apt install backblaze-b2
No software is needed outside of the default repositories. It's simply there, available within apt.
However, I would like to use another distribution with B2: Fedora, openSUSE Tumbleweed, or CachyOS. For Fedora, there's a package titled, "python3-b2sdk". openSUSE has "python-b2" and "perl-Backblaze-B2V2Client". The Arch User Repository (possibly accessible in CachyOS) has "backblaze-b2". This list isn't exhaustive because these packages aren't easy to search for. Also, it's hard to tell which packages, if any, are standalone clients.
Does anyone have any ideas about which packages for Fedora, Tumbleweed or CachyOS can replicate the functionality that "backblaze-b2" offers in Pop!_OS?
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BackBlaze's own B2 CLI tool supports this. You can download it from their site.
I think Debian/Ubuntu packages this as 'backblaze-b2' in apt.
I use the B2 CLI for listing buckets, deleting files, etc. I use rclone every night to sync filesystems with B2 buckets and it's worked great for years. However, you can also upload with the B2 CLI tool.
I download that file and run a chmod command. The instructions say not a word about what to do next.
Which one of those packages named above will let a user upload to an existing bucket?
They don't?
https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-upload-files-with-the-cli
The package you install with apt on Ubuntu is the same binary you download from the site and can use on other distros, so...why not just do what you're doing now?
Is Ubuntu special for including this software? I prefer getting it through apt, dnf, pacman, etc, even though I'm obviously willing to try the workaround you're suggesting here. If other distros have chosen not to offer it, I will accept the outcome. Is there a way to definitively answer the question, or is it best left a mystery?
After running the "chmod" command, I navigate to the file in the graphical file manager. Then I right-click the file and select "run". Nothing appears to happen. Then I go back to the terminal. It says "b2" is a command not recognized.