Smartmontools 7.3 on Ubuntu 22.04

Question

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!

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 18 '23 at 12:00

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:

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

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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