How to download and install

There are different ways to get and install smartmontools. You can use any of the procedures below (the fourth is for Debian Linux only). On the right side are instructions for trying out smartmontools once you have completed the installation. The INSTALL file contains additional information.

  1. Install from your distributions RPM file
    (Instructions)
  2. Install from our source tarball
    (Instructions)
  3. Install latest unreleased code from CVS repository
    (Instructions)
  4. Install the Debian package
    (Instructions)
  5. Install the Cygwin package
    (Instructions)
    (Windows with extLink: Cygwin installed)
  6. Install the Windows package
    (Instructions)

Smartmontools 5.38 (stable) was released 2008/03/10, see NEWS and CHANGELOG for details.


After installing it using Method 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, you can read the man pages, and try out the commands:

man smartd.conf
man smartctl
man smartd
# Only root can do this
/usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -o on -S on /dev/hda
/usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/hda

Note that the default location for the manual pages are /usr/share/man/man5 and /usr/share/man/man8.  If 'man' doesn't find them, then you may need to add /usr/share/man to your MANPATH environment variable.

The Windows package (see Method 6 above) provides preformatted man pages in *.html and *.txt format.


First Method - Install from your distributions RPM file

Starting with smartmontools release 5.37, RPM files are no longer available at the smartmontools project download page. Refer to the package download location of your distribution.

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS (both in versions 5 and newer) and Fedora Linux distributions

Other distributions providing RPM packages

Second Method (Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Cygwin) - Install from the source tarball

Third Method - Install latest unreleased code from CVS repository

Fourth Method (Debian Linux) - Install the Debian package

Fifth Method (Windows with extLink: Cygwin installed) - Install the Cygwin package

Sixth Method (Windows) - Install the Windows package


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