[Nut-upsuser] Installing Powercom BNT-2000AP on CentOS 5.6

[Arnaud Quette]

2011/11/14 Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

> On 11/14/2011 03:56 AM, Charles Lepple wrote:
>
>> On Nov 13, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Borg wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> Am a Linux newbie and need some help setting up this UPS with NUT on
>>> Cent OS 5.6. So basically I have the following packages installed with yum:
>>>
>>> libusb-devel-0.1.12-5.1.x86_64
>>> libusb-devel-0.1.12-5.1.i386
>>> libusb-0.1.12-5.1.x86_64
>>> libusb-0.1.12-5.1.i386
>>> nut-2.2.2-1.el5.x86_64
>>>
>> You may want to find a newer RPM (from rawhide?) - we're on 2.6.2 now.
>>
>
> With my Fedora packager and  centos QA hats on in the same time:  rawhide
> binaries cannot be run on any CentOS release. creating CentOS binaries from
> the rawhide nut.src.rpm is possible but not at all trivial.
>

come on, it's not that hard, and I can tell you by experience!
You'll find attached a backport to RHEL 5.1 of some recent 2.6.1.
That should help ;)

cheers,
Arnaud
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