This section presents the different methods to download NUT.
You should always use PGP/GPG to verify the signatures before using any source code.
You can use the following procedure. to do so.
The development tree is available through a Git repository hosted at GitHub.
To retrieve the current development tree, use the following command:
$ git clone git://github.com/networkupstools/nut.git
The configure script and its dependencies are not stored in Git. To generate them, ensure that autoconf, automake and libtool are installed, then run the following script in the directory you just checked out:
$ ./autogen.sh
it is optionally recommended to have Python 2.x or 3.x, and Perl, to
generate some files included into the configure script, presence is checked
by autotools when it is generated. Neutered files can be just "touched" to
pass the autogen.sh if these interpreters are not available, and effectively
skip those parts of the build later on — autogen.sh will then advise which
special environment variables to export in your situation and re-run it.
Then refer to the NUT user manual for more information.
You can browse the "vanilla NUT" code at the Main GitHub repository for NUT sources, and some possibly modified copies as part of packaging recipe sources of operating system distributions, as listed below.
GitHub has several download links for repository snapshots (for particular tags
or branches), but you will need a number of tools such as autoconf, automake
and libtool to use these snapshots to generate the configure script and some
other files.
After you configure the source workspace, a make dist-hash recipe would
create the snapshot tarballs which do not require the auto* tools, and their
checksum files, such as those available on the NUT website and attached to
GitHub Releases page.
The only official releases from this project are source code.
NUT is already available in the following operating systems (and likely more):
Linux:
BSD systems:
Mac OS X:
illumos/Solaris:
Windows (complete port, Beta):
NUT client for VMware ESXi (several versions of both; offsite, by René Garcia).
Since the hypervisor manager environment lacks access to hardware ports, this
package only includes the upsmon client integration, and a NUT server must
run in a VM with passed-through ports.
See NUT and VMware (ESXi) page on NUT Wiki for more community-contributed details.
Note that the VIB package versioning is independent of NUT or VMware versions, they are however mentioned in downloadable file names. As of this writing, there are builds spanning VMware ESXi 5.0-8.0 and NUT 2.7.4-2.8.0.
This module is provided "as is" and is not approved by VMware, you may lose VMware support if you install it. Use it at your own risks.