APC software

[woldia]

Hello,
Yesterday I bought a APC UPS, according to some other websites the software that controls the server should be installed using yum install apcupsd, but in my case this doesn't seem to be working as it does not find the package, I believe I have properly installed the epel repository, but I might be wrong. Do you know a way to install this software?
Thanks

[TrevorH]

Since you're posting in the CentOS 6 section I'm presuming that you are running 6 and not 7. You're right, on el6 there no longer appears to be an apcupsd package in EPEL though it's still in EPEL for el7. It may be that this was a package that EPEL have retired due to no maintainer but since it rarely gets updated for security bugs you can probably use google to find EPEL's archive and retrieve the most recent from there.

[woldia]

Yes, I'm running Centos 6.8, could you please give some websites to find it, I am very new to Centos and I don't know where to start.
Thank you

[TrevorH]

After much searching I did eventually find https://centos.pkgs.org/6/puias-unsuppo ... 4.rpm.html

You need to yum update as 6.9 is current and has been for several months.

[poky]

yum info apcupsd

Name : apcupsd
Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.14.12
Release : 1.el6
Size : 1.4 M
Repo : installed
From repo : epel

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yum clean all
yum update
yum install epel-release
yum --enablerepo=epel install apcupsd

yum info apcupsd
chkconfig apcupsd on
chkconfig --list | grep apcupsd
service apcupsd status

[TrevorH]

It's been retired from EPEL6 and is no longer present.

[rklrkl]

I've had a couple of APC UPS'es used with my Linux systems for about 5 years now, but I must confess I never bothered with the APC UPS software because I don't leave my machines on when I'm not in the house (which is the only time the software might be useful - to do an unattended shutdown on a power outage).

Actually, I find it useful to put my wireless router and my 25-year-old radio alarm clock on the UPS (the clock has its own battery backup, but it would chew through PP3 batteries way too fast for my liking) as well

[woldia]

Sorry to be so late,
I installed the rpm you sent me and it is working fine,
Thank you for your time.