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how to install & configure cacti on Ubuntu linux

hello everyone....

guys..can you help me how to install cacti on Ubuntu, i've already try several ways to install cacti on Ubuntu linux but i it's seems not work well..thank's for help...

Can you post more details please? Like how have you tried to install cacti, and what errors occured when you tried that.

--Ian

i just don't understand where i type the command. i read the instruction from cacti.org and the manual just explain very short and i don't know where the place to type the command. sorry i'm just new on using linux... thank's.

You should be able to install cacti using aptitude:

Code:

sudo aptitude install cacti

Alternatively, follow the "Cacti Installation for Unix / Linux", (Here). Open a terminal, enter the command "sudo -s" and enter your users password. Then follow the commands in that document step by step, and it should work.

I would recommend aptitude though, because it will fetch and install any dependencies for you (like apache, snmp and rrdtool).

There is also a good guide for installing under Linux, at the cacti website. It is specific for Fedora, but can be applied to Ubuntu (if it says use yum, use aptitude, etc).

--Ian

About your Ap titude...

You IBall'n me boy? ;)

I'm also new to the cacti experience and I followed your aptitude command. I was quite stunned when it just started "doing everything" by itself. Why can't they make EVERYTHING work like this! :cry:

So it installed prety mutch everything - PHP5, Apache2, MySQL, cacti, RDDtool...etc, etc.

I tried creating my user accounts in mysql - but the
"CREATE USER 'cacti'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; doesn't work!? So I added it in the tables - problem solved.
Now Granting priv's...so I grant him ALL but when I log in as cacti there are no databases for him to view... :eek:

So I remove php5 and install php4 - bad idea.
Then I aptitudely removed cacti with all the extra's.
Then I reinstalled it using aptitude.

So I browsed to "htt p : // myURL / cacti" and it asked me with what I wanted to open the file with??? :scratch:
So I said Firefox.exe . Now I'm at a page that sais:

You are now logged into Cacti. You can follow these basic steps to get started.

* Create devices for network
* Create graphs for your new devices
* View your new graphs

Then when I click on one of the links it wants to go to:
/C:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/host.php

Any I Deer's? :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

Oh, and I just tested my PHP with a
"<HTML>
<?php echo phpinfo(); ?>
</HTML>"
file in my web dir and it also asked me if I wanted to open, save or whatever the file. So I'm guessin my php aint workin like it should.
Where to fix it would be the question then...?