[Nut-upsuser] NUT not recognising Mini-box OpenUPS 2

[Charles Lepple]

On Aug 1, 2017, at 7:56 AM, Song Teck Ng <st.ng at leading-edge-automation.com> wrote:
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> Hi Charles,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. So the Jessie or stretch versions will work then since those are 2.7.2 and 2.7.4...
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> I will have to update my sources.list and follow this?
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> https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

That was the thought, but I mistakenly thought that there was a NUT package in wheezy-backports. https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=wheezy-backports&keywords=nut-server does not list anything. (Debian only does backports by request, and that could take a while - especially for something in oldoldstable.)

Agreed that upgrading to jessie or stretch would work.

If you can install build-essential and the NUT build-deps, you could build a newer version from source.

here is some info on that process: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2016-October/010389.html

In your case, you probably don't need the libusb-1.0 branch snapshot, so you could just use a NUT tarball from the downloads page: http://networkupstools.org/download.html#_stable_tree_2_7