[Nut-upsuser] Can't get latest version for Raspberry Pi

[Paul Smith]

Thanks Charles,
    I had no idea what a wheezy or a Jessie was until I followed your link - thanks for that. I'm surprised I hadn't come across that link before.

All of my investigations do point to the fact I have a wheezy. I think it's time for a fresh install as the Pi is pretty much doing nothing other than monitoring the UPS and a few other minor tasks. I get the impression a dist-upgrade might get me to where I want to be but it may be more straightforward to format the SD card and start again making sure I backup my nut configuration files first of course!

Regards,
Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com] 
Sent: 26 January 2016 02:22
To: paul at smithp.co.uk
Cc: nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Can't get latest version for Raspberry Pi

On Jan 25, 2016, at 2:16 PM, paul at smithp.co.uk wrote:
> 
> I now see that the directory containing 2.6.4 in the repository at http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/n/nut/ appears to have a build version also available of 2.7.2 – but no matter what I do with apt-get remove, purge, update, upgrade, install, (all the options!) it always seems to suggest that the only available version is 2.6.4
> 

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nut

It looks like you have Raspbian wheezy (Debian 7.x). NUT 2.7.2 is included in Raspbian jessie (Debian 8.x).

I'm not sure if the Raspbian maintainers recommend doing "apt-get dist-upgrade", or if they would suggest that you start from a fresh install image, but the dist-upgrade would probably take quite a while.

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Charles Lepple
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