Trying to run IDrive on ROME

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Hello,

Requirements:

I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
I have checked the Resources category (Resources Index)
I have reviewed the Wiki for relevant information
I have read the the Release Notes and Errata

OpenMandriva Lx version:

OpenMandriva Lx release 26.02 (ROME) Rolling for znver1

Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.5
WM: KWin (XLibre)

Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
I use IDrive (IDrive Linux Backup via the Command Line Interface) for backups. They have a Linux option for this, with an RPM option for Fedora/CentOS and a bin file as an alternative.

I have been unable to install either option successfully. I have referred to How to install Mullvad VPN in OpenMandriva ROME? and tried the rpm -i --force --nodeps [name].rpmmethod. While it installs (with errors) and the program initially opens, it fails to login.

Trying to install the bin file returns: “Checking installation dependencies…
Supported package installer not found. Install the packages: crontab curl tar which and proceed.”

I can see that all the packages it mentions are already installed.

The program itself installs into /opt/IDriveForLinux/.

Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):
Logs from trying to install the RPM file via the forced method:

Your machine ‘openmandriva 26.02’ is not under supported list of ‘IDrive Linux Desktop’ application. Refer ‘System Requirements’ section from the link below. If you face any issues in/after installation please contact support

Link: Download IDrive for PC, Mac, Linux, Servers, iOS, Android

(standard_in) 2: syntax error
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.MNUx3e: line 51: [: : integer expected
Overlay icons and extensions installed successfully for Nautilus, Nemo, and Caja
Dolphin detected. Installing icon overlay plugin…
Missing runtime dependencies for Dolphin plugin: kf5-kio kf5-kcoreaddons qt5-qtbase
Plugin may not work correctly. Please install: dnf install kf5-kio kf5-kcoreaddons qt5-qtbase
Continuing with plugin installation anyway…
Checking plugin library dependencies…
All shared library dependencies resolved successfully.
IDrive Dolphin icon overlay plugin installed successfully to /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/overlayicon
Restarting Dolphin…
Background dependency installation started (see /tmp/idrive-post-install.log)

The ‘idrive-post-install.log’ file says:

==============================================
[INFO] IDrive post-install worker (RPM) started at Wed 25 Feb 16:13:29 GMT 2026
==============================================
[INFO] Detected package manager: dnf
[INFO] Waiting for package manager lock…
[INFO] Package manager lock is free (waited 5s)
[INFO] Refreshing package cache…
[INFO] Checking Redis/Valkey…
[INFO] Redis already installed
[INFO] Checking for file managers and installing Python dependencies…
[INFO] Packages to install: attr python3-psutil
[INFO] attr is already installed
[WARN] Package python3-psutil not available in repositories
[WARN] 1 package(s) failed to install
[INFO] You may need to manually install the missing packages
[INFO] On RHEL/CentOS, you may need EPEL: dnf install epel-release
==============================================
[INFO] Post-install worker (RPM) completed
==============================================
[INFO] Post-install worker finished at Wed 25 Feb 16:13:35 GMT 2026

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As an update, I’ve raised this with IDrive support too so will see what they say.

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IDrive support got back to me with the following workaround:

We currently do not support OpenMandriva Lx ROME.

We request you to try using the Docker package instead and let us know if you encounter any issues.

https://www.idrive.com/idrive/sh/sh?k=k7t4u0z7r4

Steps :

1. Run the command “chmod +x idrivePackageDocker”
2. Run the command “./idrivePackageDocker -c”
3. It will prompt "Default Docker Image name is idrivePackageDocker. Do you want to change? (y/n): , enter ‘y’.
4. Enter ‘idrive’ when it prompts for Docker image name and press Enter.
5. When the above command is executed successfully, run again “./idrivePackageDocker -c”
6. Enter a docker image name: idrive
7. Enter the name for the docker container: idrive_con
8. Mount path into your docker container is set to “/” [Recommended for full machine backup]. Do you wish to change the
mount path?, Press “n”.
9. Navigate to /IDriveForLinux
10. Install the given idriveforlinux.bin package in this directory using
the command “./idriveforlinux.bin --install”

#How to start the docker instance:
1. Run “./idrivePackageDocker -c”
2. Enter a docker image name: idrive
3. Containers based on “idrive” are :
1) idrive_con (example)
2) Create a new container

#How to exit from docker instance:
Use Ctrl + P + Q
or
Type “exit” and press Enter.

This method worked for me- hopefully it helps any others that run into this issue. Any files can be located in ‘/mountpoint/’ from the Docker container for backing up.