APC UPS control system Installation from Source

Installation from Source

Installation from source might have to be be done diﬀerent ways depending

on what system you are running. The basic procedure involves getting a

source distribution, running the conﬁguration, rebuilding, and installing.

The basic installation from a tar source ﬁle is rather simple:

1. Unpack the source code from its tar archive.

2. Go into the directory containing the source code.

3. Run ./configure (with appropriate options asdescrib ed below)

4. make

5. su (i.e. become root)

6. Stop any running instance of apcupsd. The command to do this will

look like <system-dependent-path>/apcupsd stop

7. uninstall any old apcupsd This is imp ortant since the default install

locations may have changed.

8. make install

9. edit your /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf ﬁle ifnecessary

10. ensure that your halt script isprop erly updated

11. Start the new apcupsd with: <system-dependent-path>/apcupsd

start

If all goes well, the ./configure will correctly determine which oper-

ating system you are running and conﬁgure the source code appropri-

ately. configure currently recognizes the systems listed below in the

Operating System Speciﬁcs section of this chapter and adapts the conﬁg-

uration appropriately. Check that the conﬁguration report printed at the

end of the configure process corresponds to your choice of directories, op-

tions, and that it has correctly detected your operating system. If not,

redo the configure with the appropriate options until your conﬁguration is

correct.

Please note that a number of the configure options preset apcupsd.conf di-

rective valuesin anattempt to automatically adapt apcupsd as bestpossible

to your system. You can change the values in apcupsd.conf at a later time