Installation on Ubuntu 22.10

[M-F-P]

This project has been my first (and second, third and fourth) foray into node.js, and everything about it is clear as mud (especially the error messages). But I have an old ios backup that most other utilities completely fail and only one or two can pull limited information, so I have kept coming back to iphonebackuptools.

Long story short:

install nvm;

use nvm to install node;

sudo apt install python-is-python3; and finally

use npm to install iphonebackuptools per instructions.

That's it! For whatever reason, the error message simply wasn't clicking in my head that this was yet another example of the python/python3 issue, but once it did and I installed the old standby python-is-python3, it was a smooth process.

Not really an issue, but I wanted to make sure that other node neophytes see it.

[Koguni31]

Mine recipe in 23.10 was:

sudo apt install npm node-sqlite3 python-is-python3
sudo npm i -g ibackuptool

May be it suite at 22.10 as well.