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Dear all,

I am more or less new to Linux and have a question about installing packages:

I installed drobo-utils using It worked without error messages and installed version 0.6.1 which is from 09/2009.
There should be a version 0.6.2.2. as stated here: http://sourceforge.net/p/drobo-utils/co ... HANGES.txt

How do I update to the current version?

Thanks for your help,
Phillip

rudibarani wrote:Dear all,

I am more or less new to Linux and have a question about installing packages:

I installed drobo-utils using

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sudo apt-get install drobo-utils

It worked without error messages and installed version 0.6.1 which is from 09/2009.
There should be a version 0.6.2.2. as stated here: http://sourceforge.net/p/drobo-utils/co ... HANGES.txt

How do I update to the current version?

Thanks for your help,
Phillip

Why do you need newer ? Version 6.2.x is from February 2010 so not much newer !

Unfortunately the package upgrade path is quite long - and depends on how quickly these people react. A lot of the development of these packages relies on volunteers, so they might not have time to do everything you might expect.

The developers of the software, in your case drobo-utils, will release a new version. This is usually compiled so it can be installed on the major platforms, with the source code also released.

The Debian package maintainers will monitor existing packages for updates, and check what has been updated. Based on the significance of the update (number of changes, time since last package update) they will create a Debian package for it. Again the major platforms will be done first.

The Raspbian package maintainers will check Debian package updates. There is a possibility that the Debian package might have to be recompiled for the Pi, and create a Raspbian package.

You can then download it. Add some time to each step for testing and you get a long time in some cases.

If you want the latest version, you can try to compile it yourself using the source code from the developers. You might have problems doing this as there might be library differences and other things. If you find problems, and can resolve them, I am sure that the developers will appreciate the feedback.

These are the choices we all face, and usually accept and wait for the package to be updated

Navyscourge wrote:The Debian package maintainers will monitor existing packages for updates, and check what has been updated. Based on the significance of the update (number of changes, time since last package update) they will create a Debian package for it. Again the major platforms will be done first.

Debian will not include a newer version of any package in Jessie. This is because Jessie is now the "Stable" release of Debian and they dare not introduce changes which may cause problems on any systems. The only updates you will see in Debian Jessie are security fixes and and (very rarely) urgent bug fixes. These will be backported to the existing versions and are indicated by a "+debxxx" suffix on the version number.

New versions of packages will be added to the "Testing" release, which is currently called "Stretch". You can try it if you want, but it will contain bugs and frequent updates.

There is a newer version in Debian Testing, but still 6.1 based:

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/drobo-utils

Thank you all for your quick feedback!

I wanted to try the 0.6.2 version of drobo-utils (dating from 12/2009) as this version seems to contain fixes to support DroboPro. I am experiencing problems when collecting information from my DroboPro and wanted to check if this problems is know and solved in the update.

Reading all options, I will compile the current version on my Pi and try to get it to work.

Wishing all of you a good start into the new year,
Phillip

Was easier than I thought, as there was a .deb package at sourceforge I could install on Raspbian. I works fine - but unfortunately does not solve my problem collecting info from one of my Drobos