On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:07:56PM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > * Rob Munsch wrote: > > Ok, seems right. But now try smartctl -V, and note the output: > > > > smartmontools release 5.32 dated 2004/07/05 at 08:10:26 UTC > > That's not smartctl from smartmontools 5.36-8~bpo.1. But it is the exact version distributed in the Sarge smartmontools package... On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:20:08PM -0500, Rob Munsch wrote: > That's deeply weird; i installed smartmontools not 10 minutes before > getting the above output, on a clean system. Why would it install > something other than the lastest version available..? Aptitude will continue to pick Sarge's packages by default (even though the bpo package has a later version number). See http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions for a couple of ways to get Aptitude to choose the bpo version. Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - nathanst@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239
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