[rancid] Upgrading Rancid

[Chuck Anderson]

What operating system are you running?  Some of them come with rancid pre-packaged and you can just install it.  If your existing install is located in /usr/local, the package will generally not overwrite it.  If you have existing /etc/rancid* files, you should save them first before installing the package, just in case.

Debian/Ubuntu:

apt install rancid

Fedora/EPEL (RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, etc.):

dnf install rancid

Others:

https://repology.org/project/rancid/versions

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 08:41:39AM +0000, simon ben wrote:
>  Dear All,
> I did the following to upgrade rancid from rancid 3.9 to 3.13
> downloaded the new tar file and unzip in /home/rancid/tar/rancid-3.13 and i try to run configure it gives me the below error
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rancid
> ./configure: line 1912: config.log: Permission denied
> ./configure: line 1922: config.log: Permission denied
> the permissions for the directory is as belowdrwxr-xr-x 8   7053 wheel    4096 Aug 23  2021 rancid-3.13
> Appreciate  any advice and help 
> wondering where is the permission issue
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> Simon
> 
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>     On Monday, October 30, 2023 at 08:02:05 PM GMT+3, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:  
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>  Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 05:48:11AM +0000, simon ben:
> > Dear All,I have been running rancid for quite sometime an excellent toll and I need to upgrade 
> > current version is rancid 3.9need to upgrade to 3.13
> > Appreciate your kind help and advice 
> > If any one can share a link explaining  upgrade procedure i really apprecite
> > 
> > Upgrade read-me file not very clear
> > Appreciate and Thanks