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<h2>How to download and install</h2>
<p>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
<b><a href="http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/INSTALL?view=markup">
INSTALL</a></b> file contains additional information.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Install from your distributions RPM file</strong><br />(<a href="#rpm">Instructions</a>)</li>
<li><strong>Install from our source tarball</strong><br />(<a href="#tarball">Instructions</a>)</li>
<li><strong>Install latest unreleased code from CVS repository</strong><br />(<a href="#CVSInstall">Instructions</a>)</li>
<li><strong>Install the Debian package</strong><br />(<a href="#debian">Instructions</a>)</li>
<li><strong>Install the Cygwin package</strong><br />(<a href="#CygwinInstall">Instructions</a>)<br />
(Windows with <a href="http://cygwin.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Cygwin</a> installed)</li>
<li><strong>Install the Windows package</strong><br />(<a href="#WindowsInstall">Instructions</a>)</li>
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<div><p>Smartmontools 5.38 (stable) was released 2008/03/10, see 
<a href="http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/NEWS?revision=RELEASE_5_38&amp;view=markup">NEWS</a> 
and <a href="http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/CHANGELOG?revision=RELEASE_5_38&amp;view=markup">CHANGELOG</a> 
for details.</p></div>

<hr />

<div><p><b>After installing it using Method 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, you can read the
man pages, and try out the commands:</b></p>

<p class="code">
man smartd.conf<br />
man smartctl<br />
man smartd<br />
    # Only root can do this<br />
/usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -o on -S on /dev/hda<br /> 
/usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/hda</p>

<p>Note that the default location for the manual pages are
<tt>/usr/share/man/man5</tt> and <tt>/usr/share/man/man8</tt>.&#160; If
'<tt>man</tt>' doesn't find them, then you may need to add
<tt>/usr/share/man</tt> to your <tt>MANPATH</tt> environment
variable.</p>

<p>The Windows package (see Method 6 above) provides preformatted man pages
in <tt>*.html</tt> and <tt>*.txt</tt> format.</p>
<hr />

<h3><a name="rpm"></a>First Method - Install from your distributions RPM file</h3>
<p class="marked">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.</p>

<h4>On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS (both in versions 5 and newer) and Fedora
Linux distributions</h4>

<ul class="Square">
<li>The smartmontools package is part of the official
repositories and can be installed using the <tt>yum</tt> command:
<p class="code"># you need to be root to do this<br />
yum install smartmontools</p></li>
</ul>

<h4>Other distributions providing RPM packages</h4>

<ul class="Square">

<li>Download the latest binary RPM file (<tt>smartmontools*.rpm</tt>) for your
distribution. Don't get the SRPM file (<tt>*.src.rpm</tt>).<br /><br /></li>

<li>Install it using RPM. <em>You must be <tt>root</tt> to do this</em>:<br />
<p class="code">su root # -> enter root password
<br />rpm -ivh  smartmontools-5.33-6.i586.rpm</p>
For most users, this is all that is needed.<br /><br /></li>

<li>If you want to remove the package (<tt>rpm -e smartmontools</tt>)
and your system does not have <tt>chkconfig</tt> installed, you may need
to use:
<p class="code">rpm -e --noscripts smartmontools</p></li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="tarball"></a>Second Method (Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Cygwin) - Install from the source tarball</h3>
<ul class="Square">
<li>Download the latest source tarball from <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64297">here</a>.
Note: you probably want the most recent stable release. Stable releases have
even-numbered extensions, and unstable experimental releases have
odd-numbered extensions.<br /><br /></li>

<li>Uncompress the tarball:
<p class="code">tar zxvf  smartmontools-5.38.tar.gz</p></li>
<li>The previous step created a directory called <tt>smartmontools-5.38</tt>
containing the code.&#160; Go to that directory, build, and install:
<p class="code">cd smartmontools-5.38<br />
./configure<br />
make<br />
make install</p></li>

<li>For releases &gt;=5.19, <tt>./configure</tt>
can take optional arguments. These optional arguments are fully explained in the
<a href="http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/INSTALL?view=markup">INSTALL</a>
file. The most important one is <tt>--prefix</tt> to change the default installation directories.<br />
<i>Please note that the default installation location changed in versions &gt;=5.31.</i>
If you don't pass any arguments to <tt>./configure</tt> all files will reside under
    <tt>/usr/local</tt> to not interfere with files from your distribution. For more detailed
information please also refer to the
<a href="http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/INSTALL?view=markup">INSTALL</a>
document.<br /><br /></li>

<li>To compile from another directory (avoids overwriting virgin files from the smartmontools package)
replace <tt>./configure [options]</tt> by:
<p class="code">
mkdir objdir<br />
cd objdir<br />
../configure [options]<br />
</p></li>

<li>To install to another destination (useful for testing and to avoid overwriting an existing smartmontools installation)
replace <tt>make install</tt> by:
<p class="code">make DESTDIR=/home/myself/smartmontools-test install</p>
Use a full path: <tt>~/smartmontools-test</tt> won't work.<br /><br /></li>

<li>Unless the destination directory is your home directory (or a location that you have write permission)
<br />
<p class="code"># only root can do that:<br />
make install</p>
</li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="CVSInstall"></a>
Third Method - Install latest unreleased code from CVS repository</h3>
<ul class="Square">
<li><span class="marked">Due to the new SourceForge CVS
architecture, the hostname for CVS access has changed from
<tt>cvs.sourceforge.net</tt> to <tt>smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net</tt>.
To update a copy of smartmontools checked out before 2006-05-12, change all
the <tt>*/CVS/Root</tt> files accordingly.</span><br /><br /></li>

<li>One of the really cool things about CVS is that you can get
<i>any</i> version of the code you want, from the first release up the
the most current development version. And it's trivial, because
each release is <u>tagged</u> with a name like
<tt>RELEASE_5_38</tt>. You can see what the different names are
by looking at the <a href="http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/">
CVS repository</a>. You'll see the tag names in the little scroll
window where it says "Show only files with tag". All you need to
do to get the latest development code is
(but note that the development code may be unstable, and that the
documentation and code may be inconsistent):

<p class="code">cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools login<br />
# when prompted for a password, just press Enter<br />
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools co sm5</p></li>

<li>To instead get the RELEASE_5_37 release:

<p class="code">cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/smartmontools co -r RELEASE_5_37 sm5</p></li>

<li>This will create a subdirectory called <tt>sm5/</tt> containing the
code. Go to that directory, build, and install:
<p class="code">cd sm5<br />
./autogen.sh<br />
./configure<br />
make<br />
make install</p>

<p>- See notes under <b>Second method - install from source tarball</b> for different options to <tt>./configure</tt>
and other useful remarks.</p>
<p>- Skip <tt>./autogen.sh</tt> and <tt>./configure</tt> for tagged releases
&lt;= 5.1-18 (RELEASE_5_X_Y, where X = 0 or 1 and Y = 0 to 18).</p>
<p>- If you get the current sources (<tt>cvs co</tt> with no arguments or do <tt>cvs up
-A</tt>) then you <i>will</i>  need those two additional steps.</p>
</li>

    <li>To update your sources to the RELEASE_5_38 release:
<p class="code">cd sm5<br />
cvs up -r RELEASE_5_38</p></li>

<li>To update any tagged release to the latest development code:

<p class="code">cd sm5
cvs up -A</p></li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="debian"></a>Fourth Method (Debian Linux) - Install the Debian package</h3>
<ul class="Square">
<li>All versions of the smartmontools package in <i>.deb</i> format are
available at the  <a href="http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=smartmontools&amp;searchon=names&amp;suite=all&amp;section=all">
<img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Debian package search page</a>.</li>

<li>If you're running Debian <a
href="http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />stable</a> please download a
backport to stable <a
href="http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/s/smartmontools/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.
These packages are provided by <a
href="http://www.backports.org"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />www.backports.org</a>.<br /><br /></li>

<li>You can then install the package using:
<p class="code">dpkg -i smartmontools_5.36-1_i386.deb</p>

If you prefer to fetch the packages using apt, please read the instructions at
<a href="http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />backports.org</a>.
</li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="CygwinInstall"></a>
Fifth Method (Windows with <a href="http://cygwin.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Cygwin</a> installed) - Install the Cygwin package</h3>
<ul class="Square">
<li>Starting with CVS snapshot 2005-11-15, smartmontools is part of
the <a href="http://cygwin.com/packages/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Cygwin distribution</a>.
A list of available smartmontools packages and their contents is
<a href="http://cygwin.com/packages/smartmontools/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.<br /><br /></li>
<li>To update your installation, click on the "Install or update now!"
link on the <a href="http://cygwin.com/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />Cygwin web page</a>.
This downloads <tt>setup.exe</tt> to your system.
Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.
Select smartmontools package in the "Utils" category.<br /><br /></li>

<li>The optional source package (<tt>smartmontools-*-src.tar.bz2</tt>)
can be used to build both the Cygwin and the Windows binary packages
on Cygwin.
Refer to the file <tt>/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/smartmontools-*.README</tt>
for details.</li>
</ul>

<h3><a name="WindowsInstall"></a>
Sixth Method (Windows) - Install the Windows package
</h3>
<ul class="Square">
<li>Download and run the latest smartmontools
<a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />NSIS</a>-installer
(<tt>*.win32-setup.exe</tt>) from
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64297"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.
<ul>
<li>The default install type "Full" creates start menu shortcuts
including an uninstaller, and adds the install directory to the PATH variable.
</li>
<li>Select install type "Extract files only" to disable these extra
components.
</li>
<li>Virus scanners occasionally produce false positive virus reports for
NSIS-installers, see the
<a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NSIS_False_Positives"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />NSIS False Positives page</a>.
If this is the case for the smartmontools installer, please send a report to the
    <a href="mailto:smartmontools-support&#64;lists.sourceforge.net"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />smartmontools-support
mailing list</a>.<br /><br /></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><span class="marked">Starting with smartmontools release 5.37, the Windows package
is no longer provided as a ZIP archive (<tt>*.win32.zip</tt>).</span><br />
If the self extracting installer cannot be used for some reason, the files may also
be unpacked by a recent version of <a href="http://www.7-zip.org/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />7-Zip</a>.<br /><br /></li>

<li>More recent (and probably unstable) Windows test releases build from CVS
snapshots are available <a href="http://smartmontools-win32.dyndns.org/smartmontools/"><img src="pics/linkext.gif" width="11" height="11" border="0" alt="extLink: " />here</a>.</li>
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