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

[Arnaud Quette]

2011/11/16 Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

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> On 11/15/2011 11:58 PM, Arnaud Quette wrote:
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> 2011/11/14 Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>
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>> On 11/14/2011 03:56 AM, Charles Lepple wrote:
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>>> 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.
>
> I've done it, too, a few weeks ago. The rpm runs happy on a 5.7. But I had
> to fiddle around with the location of udev rules in order to make them
> trigger.
>

well, newer Linux distros, like fedora, use /lib/udev, while older like
RHEL still sits on /etc/udev.
With that, Jonathan should be able to find his way...

cheers,
Arnaud
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