[CentOS] Re: Problem Installing rrdtool

Wed Aug 16 17:50:13 UTC 2006
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

Jim Perrin spake the following on 8/16/2006 4:31 AM:
> On 8/16/06, dennis <dennis at bulacan.gov.ph> wrote:
>>
>>
>> hi to all,
>>
>> im currently installing rrdtool-1.2.15 with my box CentOS 4.3 final
>> ,before
>> i installed rrdtools there 2 files suggested need to installed the
>> FreeType
>> 2 and libart_lgpl 2.3 everything is fine when installed two files but
>> when i
>> try to installed rrdtool when i issue command ./configure
>> --prefix=/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.15
>> this should the output ,any suggestion what's the problem ,thanks to
>> all in
>> advance
> 
> It's far better to stick with rpms on an rpm based system. This way
> all the other software knows about each other via the rpm database,
> and you don't run into missing dependencies, version conflicts, and
> other issues that like to creep up.
> 
> Several repositories have rrdtool packaged for centos including
> dag/rpmforge listed in another repsponse here and the kbs-Extras
> repository maintained by Karanbir ( he's a nice guy like that). It's
> really far better to use one of these than to build your own.
> 
> See http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories for your answers. The
> KBS-Extras repository is at centos.karan.org, and dag's repo is at
> dag.wieers.com/packages/
> 
> 
If Johnny would just package Vispan and all of it's dependencies, all would be
 wonderful!


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