[smokeping-users] Upgrade 2.3.6 to 2.4.2 Debian

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Niko Tyni wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:33:47PM +1100, Keith Pawson wrote:
>
> > I've got a Debian Lenny box with Smokeping running 2.3.6 ...
> > I want to upgrade it to 2.42 and then the latest snapshot to
> > resolve the FF35 zoom issue ...
>
> The right way to switch to a non-Debian version is to install it
> separately to /usr/local or /srv and configure it yourself. ...

Correct.  For this kind of thing Debian policies are just a PITA,
I'd recommend ditching the Debian version entirely and installing
Smokeping from scratch from

http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/

You can make it into a package yourself if you want to  (that's
what I did for 'xv'. :)

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73,
Ged.