Ubuntu 12.04 provides via apt-get smartmontools (smartctl) 5.41 (released 2011-06-09).
The latest version of smartmontools is 6.2 and the package for this is available with 14.04.
Is there any reason why I should not install the 6.2 package under 12.04?
1 Answer
No you can't be able to install 6.2 version of smartmontools package on Ubuntu 12.04.
See this page.There are seperate versions of smartmontools package was developed for each Ubuntu version.
Version 6.2 was only for Ubuntu 14.04 likewise for all the other Ubuntu versions.
