Improve the Requirements documentation by suggesting an apt source for libgcrypt. #6
Description
Thanks for sharing blocksync-fast. I'm in the process of trying it out. I use UrBackup with a btrfs partition as the backup repository. UrBackup hashes and de-dupes across many client backup snapshots, so many backups are (ref-)linked in some complex ways. I think that this tool will help me make copies of the backup partition to offline/offsite disks.
Going through the install, I initially followed the link you provide to libgcrypt. I had some problems compiling and installing those tools because the link went to a maintainers site, and required a lot of other development tools (mostly for the docs) that I did not have. What I finally determined - was that Ubuntu already had libgcrypt, but not the header files.
The upshot is that all I needed to do before compiling blocksync-fast was: apt install libgcrypt-dev That put in the header files for the programs already included with Ubuntu. Such a clue might make it easier for other Ubuntu users that want to try blocksync-fast.