On Sat, 14 May 2022 at 13:54, ghe2001 <ghe2...@protonmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, May 13, 2022 8:37 PM, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, you could try the more recent version of smartmontools > > (7.2-1~bpo10+1) that is available in the buster-backports > > repository. > > > > Version 6.6 was released 2017-November-05. > > Version 7.2 was released 2020-December-30. > > I found out about 7.n a bit after I posted to the list. I've never gone the > backports route before, but I tried it and couldn't find the v7 deb in the > pkg software. I put the backports line in sources and update apt (and > aptitude) -- smartmontools was still at 6. I removed 6 and tried again. I > removed everything bue the backports from sources and updated apt. 6 was > still in my package managers' lists. > > Can you tell from that what I did wrong with backports?
Have a look at this page: https://wiki.debian.org/Backports in particular: https://wiki.debian.org/Backports#Installing_backports_on_the_command_line "The backports repository is deactivated by default." ... See also here: https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index3h2 "All backports are deactivated by default " ...
