I installed KDE Timeshift, and I get an error message when I try to launch it.
“Missing Dependencies”
Commands listed below are not available on this system:
*crontab
Please install required packages and try running TimeShift again.
I have already installed “timeshift” and “timeshift-autosnap”. I also have the same program installed on my laptop which runs on Arcolinux, and there is no problem there.
What other dependencies am I missing?
A library-based package manager with dependency support
core/pacman-mirrorlist 20200207-1 [installed]
Arch Linux mirror list for use by pacman
extra/expac 10-1
pacman database extraction utility
extra/namcap 3.2.10-1
A Pacman package analyzer
extra/pkgfile 21-1
a pacman .files metadata explorer
community/pacman-contrib 1.3.0-1 [installed]
Contributed scripts and tools for pacman systems
community/pacmanlogviewer 1.4.1-1
Inspect pacman log files
community/pacmatic 20150126-2
A pacman wrapper to avoid bricking your system and such other surprises.
community/pacredir 0.4.2-1
redirect pacman requests, assisted by avahi service discovery
community/perl-cpanplus-dist-arch 1.32-5
CPANPLUS backend for building ArchLinux pacman packages
community/reflector 2020.3-1 [installed]
A Python 3 module and script to retrieve and filter the latest Pacman mirror
list.
community/snap-pac 2.3.1-1
Pacman hooks that use snapper to create pre/post btrfs snapshots like
openSUSE's YaST
endeavouros/yay 9.4.6-2 [installed]
Yet another yogurt. Pacman wrapper and AUR helper written in go.
[elloquin@elloquin-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -Ss chronie
[elloquin@elloquin-pc ~]$ yay cronie
2 aur/cronie-selinux 1.5.5-1 (+19 0.00%)
Daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools with SELinux support
1 core/cronie 1.5.5-1 (78.1 KiB 233.4 KiB) (Installed)
Daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==>
Please read the wiki @JR29 posted as to what cron is. cronie is a part of cron. As you have probably already seen timeshift is capable of running scheduled back ups. To do so it relies on a package called cronie. “Daemon that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools”
Endeavouros is basically a vanilla archlinux install with some nice features added to get you up and running quickly and make it more new user friendly. As such it has a very minimal amount of packages installed. Timeshift is an AUR package as is not in the archlinux official repositories. If you install packages from the AUR you will run into issues like this from time to time.
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