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I bought a SSD enclosure equipped with the Asmedia 2364 chipset.

Ubuntu 22.04 is shipped with Smartmontools 7.2 that does not support that chipset. Instead, the 7.3 can address it by the switch -d sntasmedia.

For testing I built it from sources, but I would rely on the stock Ubuntu packages.

Ubuntu 23 ships the 7.3, so I would ask you if it is possibile to install it, or when the backport will be available for the 22.04

Thank you so much in advance!

Paolo Palleschi
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  • Does this answer your question? Why don't the Ubuntu repositories have the latest versions of software? – guiverc May 16 '23 at 11:29
  • Thank you, it may answer. Do you know where I could download the packages shipped for the 23.04 in order to test it on a virtual machine? – Antonio Petricca May 16 '23 at 11:32
  • If it was available for a year product (eg. Ubuntu Core 22 is the year flavor of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server) then it'll run on all releases as year products are snap only, and snap packages run on all, alas there is no Ubuntu 23 as year products are released only on the even years (ie. Ubuntu Core 22 was released; next will be Ubuntu Core 24 a few months after Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Server is released) – guiverc May 16 '23 at 11:32
  • All Ubuntu builds are done on launchpad; eg. https://packages.ubuntu.com/lunar/smartmontools will provide details for the lunar or 23.04 system, or you could follow links at https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=smartmontools&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all for any release... This also allows you to get source, or built packages depending on what links you follow... – guiverc May 16 '23 at 11:37
  • It is installable. smartctl -V smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-72-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org – nobody May 16 '23 at 11:54
  • How can I install it on the 22.04?! – Paolo Palleschi May 16 '23 at 11:59
  • It worked thank you. I want you can write a regular answer to accept as solution. – Antonio Petricca May 16 '23 at 20:04

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First a few notes for this solution:

  • When you download and install a package manually, you get no updates for it. You have to manually update to a later version of the package.

  • And you have to check yourself if the dependencies for the package are satisfied for the newer package on your release.

  • And please do not forget to remove the package before a release upgrade.

Go to Ubuntu package search, and search for the package you need there:

smartmontools for kinetic

In this case, you need smartmontools for Kinetic, and this can be downloaded from any of the mirrors listed.

Copy one hyperlink and then download the package with wget (here listed for http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/s/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.3-1_amd64.deb):

wget -c http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/s/smartmontools/smartmontools_7.3-1_amd64.deb

And finally you can install the downloaded deb with apt or dpkg:

sudo apt install ./smartmontools_7.3-1_amd64.deb
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