Installing RRDTool
!RRDTool is used to format data from any sort of source you can define, and saves the data in a database.
It comes from: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/
If you have access to a package management system, you will probably be able to find rrdtool ready to go.
If you need to build it from source, the documentation with it in doc/rrdbuild.txt is excellent.
Most Commonly Required Libraries:
requires libart-2.0
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requires libpng
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cgi-lib
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Using py-rrdtool ? read this !
py-rrdtool doesn't work with the recently released RRDTool (1.2xx)
Installing the old RRDTool - Assuming all above libraries are in place
wget http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.0.x/rrdtool-1.0.50.tar.gz gunzip rrdtool-1.0.50.tar.gz tar -vxf rrdtool-1.0.50.tar cd rrdtool-1.0.50 ./configure --prefix=/opt/rrdtool_1.0.50 gmake gmake install
Linking py-rrdtool with rrdtool
CFLAGS=-I/opt/rrdtool_1.0.50/include cd ~sarcher/py-rrdtool-0.2.1 python setup.py install
