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

[Charles Lepple]

On Aug 1, 2017, at 12:01 PM, Song Teck <songteck at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Charles,
> 
> Ok, I missed the absence from the backports as well. Again, some unfamiliarity here, so 
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> 1) I presume I cannot use a metapackage meant for jessie or stretch on wheezy? Or if I can, is there a way to deploy it from console?

The "nut" metapackage just depends on "nut-client" and "nut-server". The drivers are in the server package - you'd need to find a way to install a newer nut-server package, and I don't know if I would want to try and mix .deb versions like that (if it is even possible).

> 2) If not and I use the 2.7.4 tar found at http://networkupstools.org/download.html, do i just run the classical process? i.e.
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> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install

You could, but the paths would be slightly different from the .deb version, and it won't necessarily integrate with the system shutdown. However, the driver-to-upsd interface hasn't changed between 2.6.5 and 2.7.4, as long as you use the same paths for ./configure that the 2.6.5 Debian package used.

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> ./configure has a no under "install USB drivers" and when I add that handle (--with-usb) in, it prompts for libusb. 
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> Does that mean I actually have to do the process referenced in your link? Or is it fine to go ahead with that as USB drivers as a no?
> 

The OpenUPS2 is connected via USB, so you'll need the libusb dependencies.

> here is some info on that process: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/2016-October/010389.html
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> 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
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To clarify: that thread was talking about a snapshot of a NUT branch that uses libusb-1.0, versus the original libusb-0.1 support. If you set things up to do "apt-get build-dep nut", it will pull in the libusb-dev package (which would cause the ./configure output to say yes for building USB drivers).