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I have btrfs-assistant installed and running on MX-Linux.
Done: I will test now and report back.
:100: Verified: Works on systemd-free debian-based MX-Linux

I did want to pass along the fact that I had to install the packages libbtrfs-dev & libbtrfs0 & libbtrfsutil-dev to succesfully compile. Of course since you are now using libbtrfsutil. Took me a minute to deal with what packages I needed. :wink:

FYI: Installing libbtrfs-dev pulls in libbtrfs0 as a dep.

Done: I will triple check to see what deps those packages pull in as well. I will let you know.

The 3 additional packages needed to compile btrfs-assistant on debian based distros are exactly these:

  1. libbtrfs-dev

  2. libbtrfs0 (a dep that gets installed with libbtrfs-dev)

  3. libbtrfsutil-dev

So the Installation instructions on the gitlab page would need updating to reflect this.

Gitlab install section for Debian/Ubuntu should look like so:

Debian/Ubuntu

  1. Install the prerequisites: sudo apt install git cmake qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev fonts-noto libqt5svg5 libqt5core5a g++ libbtrfs-dev libbtrfsutil-dev

This should do the trick.

Thanks!

EDIT: Added a third package → “libbtrfsutil-dev” for prerequisites.
EDIT: Reported back here testing complete on systemd-free system. :100:

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