Ubuntu and CentOS installation rrdtool--cacti pre-built skills

Installing Pre-requisites

Note that RRDTool 1.0.x versions included all dependancies, but 1.2.x versions require you to install these dependancies b Efore installing RRDTool.

For RedHat 9, you'll need to install the following RPMs from the RH9 CD:

• libart_lgpl-2.3.11-2.i386.rpm
• libart_lgpl-devel-2.3.11-2.i386.rpm
• zlib-1.1.4-8.i386.rpm
• zlib-devel-1.1.4-8.i386.rpm
• libpng-1.2.2-16.i386.rpm
• libpng-devel-1.2.2-16.i386.rpm
• freetype-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm
• freetype-devel-2.1.3-6.i386.rpm

You'll also need to install Cgilib-devel, and a RH9 RPM for Cgi-lib-devel can is found on the Cgilib RPM packages page .

Each of the above RPMs can is installed using the following syntax:

rpmname.rpm

Installing RRDTool on Ubuntu
On Ubuntu distributions of Linux, RRDTool can is installed by running the following:

Apt-get Install Librrds-perl RRDtool

msnually installing RRDTool from Source

To manually install RRDTool from the source code, SCP the tarball into the /usr/src directory on your Linux box. From a command prompt, change into the /usr/src directory, and Un-tar the tarball:

CD/USR/SRCTAR-XZVF rrdtool-1.2.12.tar.gz

Change into the newly created directory:

CD rrdtool-1.2.12

Compile and install RRDTool:

./configure--disable-tclmakemake Install

TCL is disabled, as compilation of some of the TCL components for RRDTool 1.2.12 would otherwise fail on RedHat 9.
Run ./configure--help For more information on configuration options.

The default installation is/usr/local/rrdtool-version, so make some symbolic links to the executables:

Ln-sf/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.12/bin/rrdtool/usr/bin/rrdtoolln-sf/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.12/bin/rrdupdate/usr/bin /rrdupdateln-sf/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.12/bin/rrdcgi/usr/bin/rrdcgi

The RRDTool Perl Library simplifies things when using RRDTool from a Perl script, so to compile and install the Perl libra Ry for RRDTool:

Make Site-perl-install

Creating Data Directories for RRDTool
Create a directory for RRDTool databases, and a directory for the web images which it ' ll generate:

Mkdir/var/lib/rrdmkdir/var/www/html/rrdtool

Ubuntu and CentOS installation rrdtool--cacti pre-built skills