Re: smartctl puzzlement new disk
On Sat, 14 May 2022 at 13:54, ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, May 13, 2022 8:37 PM, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, you could try the more recent version of smartmontools
> > (7.2-1~bpo10+1) that is available in the buster-backports
> > repository.
> >
> > Version 6.6 was released 2017-November-05.
> > Version 7.2 was released 2020-December-30.
>
> I found out about 7.n a bit after I posted to the list. I've never gone the backports route before, but I tried it and couldn't find the v7 deb in the pkg software. I put the backports line in sources and update apt (and aptitude) -- smartmontools was still at 6. I removed 6 and tried again. I removed everything bue the backports from sources and updated apt. 6 was still in my package managers' lists.
>
> Can you tell from that what I did wrong with backports?
Have a look at this page:
https://wiki.debian.org/Backports
in particular:
https://wiki.debian.org/Backports#Installing_backports_on_the_command_line
"The backports repository is deactivated by default." ...
See also here:
https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index3h2
"All backports are deactivated by default " ...
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