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

[Song Teck]

Hi Charles,

thanks for the clarification on the libusb. that indeed does work to get
the value in ./configure.

I've tried installing a .deb

sudo dpkg -i nut_2.7.4-5_all.deb
(Reading database ... 103447 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace nut 2.6.4-2.3+deb7u1 (using nut_2.7.4-5_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement nut ...
Setting up nut (2.7.4-5) ...

which doesn't return an error but starting upsdrvctl after still shows
v2.6.4 so that didn't work.

Does ./configure, make, sudo make install have to be carried out in a
particular directory? I've run it from a /usr/local both with and without
the user/group/usb switches and again it seems to run fine but when the
upsdrvctl is called, it still remains as 2.6.4 so evidently I'm missing
something here...

Thanks again for your patience

On 2 August 2017 at 10:02, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 1, 2017, at 12:01 PM, Song Teck <songteck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Charles,
> >
> > Ok, I missed the absence from the backports as well. Again, some
> unfamiliarity here, so
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ./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.
>
> >
> > ./configure has a no under "install USB drivers" and when I add that
> handle (--with-usb) in, it prompts for libusb.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> 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).
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