[[PageOutline(1-4,Table of Contents)]] = Smartmontools Download and Installation = Smartmontools 5.38 (stable) was released 2008/03/10, see [http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5/NEWS?view=markup NEWS] and [http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5/CHANGELOG?view=markup CHANGELOG] for details. ---- After installation or booting from a [#live-cd Live-CD], you can read smartmontools 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 [#WindowsInstall Windows package] provides preformatted man pages in {{{*.html}}} and {{{*.txt}}} format. ---- == First Method - Install precompiled package == 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. {{{ #!html }}} ---- == Debian Linux - Install the Debian package == All versions of the smartmontools package in ''.deb'' format are available at the [http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=smartmontools&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all Debian package search page]. If you're running Debian [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ stable] please download a backport to stable [http://www.backports.org/debian/pool/main/s/smartmontools/ here]. These packages are provided by [http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php www.backports.org]. You can then install the package using: {{{ dpkg -i smartmontools_5.36-1_i386.deb }}} If you prefer to fetch the packages using apt, please read the instructions at [http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions backports.org]. ---- == Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS (both in versions 5 and newer) and Fedora Linux distributions == {{{ #!html


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

Third Method - Install latest unreleased code from SVN repository

We moved from CVS to a Subversion (SVN) repository. The new address for our repository is https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools

Fourth Method - Don't install, run from Live-system

If you have a system that is showing signs of disk trouble (for example, it's unbootable and the console is full of disk error messages) it can be handy to have a version of smartmontools that can be run off of a bootable CD or floppy to examine the disk's SMART data and run self-tests. This is also useful if you want to run Captive Self-Tests (the -C option of smartctl ) on disks that can not easily be unmounted, such as those hosting the Operating System files. Or you can use this to run smartctl on computers that don't use Linux as the day-to-day operating system.

Here is a list of such bootable CDs:

Please let us know if there are others, and we will add them to this list.

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