Help needed with Nagios installation

chicken76 · 07-19-2011, 10:23 AM

I'm trying to install Nagios on a machine running Slackware-12.2 and keep getting this error:

Code:

*** GD, PNG, and/or JPEG libraries could not be located... *********

Boutell's GD library is required to compile the statusmap, trends
and histogram CGIs.  Get it from http://www.boutell.com/gd/, compile
it, and use the --with-gd-lib and --with-gd-inc arguments to specify
the locations of the GD library and include files.

NOTE: In addition to the gd-devel library, you'll also need to make
      sure you have the png-devel and jpeg-devel libraries installed
      on your system.

NOTE: After you install the necessary libraries on your system:
      1. Make sure /etc/ld.so.conf has an entry for the directory in
         which the GD, PNG, and JPEG libraries are installed.
      2. Run 'ldconfig' to update the run-time linker options.
      3. Run 'make clean' in the Nagios distribution to clean out
         any old references to your previous compile.
      4. Rerun the configure script.

I have installed the packages:

gd-2.0.35-i486-2
libjpeg-6b-i486-5
libpng-1.2.44-i486-1_slack12.2

Ran ldconfig, supplied the ./configure script with the --with-gd-lib and --with-gd-inc arguments, to no avail.
Somehow I have the feeling I'm missing some libraries, but can't really "put my finger" on them.

sweetfa · 07-19-2011, 03:32 PM

What is the full command line you are invoking configure with?

chicken76 · 07-19-2011, 03:38 PM

I've tried with no arguments and also:

Code:

./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd --with-gd-lib=/usr/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/include

Still the same error appears and every graphical cgi in Nagios is missing.

sweetfa · 07-20-2011, 12:10 AM

I presume you have checked that /usr/lib/libgd.so.2 exists.

Are you running in a 32 or 64 bit environment?

And have you tried running configure with the full path to the library file instead of just the directory. I haven't been able to find my installation command line and it was such a long time ago.

chicken76 · 07-20-2011, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by sweetfa

I presume you have checked that /usr/lib/libgd.so.2 exists.

Yes, it's present.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sweetfa

Are you running in a 32 or 64 bit environment?

It's Slackware 12.2, so it's 32 bit.

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Originally Posted by sweetfa

And have you tried running configure with the full path to the library file instead of just the directory. I haven't been able to find my installation command line and it was such a long time ago.

Tried it and no change.

Here are the lines preceding the error in my first post:

Code:

checking for gdImagePng in -lgd (order 1)... no
checking for gdImagePng in -lgd (order 2)... no
checking for gdImagePng in -lgd (order 3)... no
checking for gdImagePng in -lgd (order 4)... no

Do you know if png-devel and jpeg-devel are the same thing as libpng and libjpeg?

Diantre · 07-20-2011, 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by chicken76

Do you know if png-devel and jpeg-devel are the same thing as libpng and libjpeg?

The "devel" packages in other linux distributions usually contain C/C++ headers that go in /usr/include. Slackware packages provide both the binaries/libraries and headers, so yes, libpng and libjpeg already have the "devel" files.

A question regarding your problem. Do you know which library isn't found? Or is it the three of them, libpng, libjpeg and gd? I mention this because you said you tried this command:

Code:

./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd --with-gd-lib=/usr/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/include

Maybe if you pass to configure similar options for both libjpeg and libpng?

chicken76 · 07-20-2011, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Diantre

A question regarding your problem. Do you know which library isn't found? Or is it the three of them, libpng, libjpeg and gd?

That's the thing, whether I supply those arguments or not, the result is the same (no detailed information on what was found and what wasn't). And since I don't know C, I have no idea how to check this other than looking in config.log for any failures.
A couple of things caught my attention:

Code:

configure:6441: checking for main in -liconv
configure:6470: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -liconv   >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.2.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

and

Code:

configure:6502: checking for gdImagePng in -lgd (order 1)
configure:6535: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lgd -lttf -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lm  >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.2.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lttf
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Googling for liconv turned out some interesting results. It seems gd fails when liconv or libconv is not found. I see Slackware does not have this library in a package, but sources are available for libiconv at http://www.gnu.org/s/libiconv/
Do you think it's worth compiling and installing it?
However, searching for lttf did not turn out anything useful. Do you have any idea what it might be?

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Originally Posted by Diantre

Maybe if you pass to configure similar options for both libjpeg and libpng?

I've checked the configure script and it does not have such options.

chicken76 · 07-20-2011, 05:56 AM

UPDATE:

After installing the following packages, the configure script partially passed the GD test:

libXpm
libX11
fontconfig
libxcb
libXau
libXdmcp

Here's an excerpt from config.log:

Code:

configure:6502: checking for gdImagePng in -lgd (order 1)
configure:6535: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lgd -lttf -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lm  >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.2.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lttf
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:6568: result: no
configure:6575: checking for gdImagePng in -lgd (order 2)
configure:6608: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lgd  -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lm  >&5
configure:6614: $? = 0
configure:6634: result: yes
configure:6839: checking for gdImageCreateTrueColor in -lgd
configure:6874: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lgd   >&5
configure:6880: $? = 0
configure:6898: result: yes

xj25vm · 11-12-2013, 09:51 AM

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After installing the following packages, the configure script partially passed the GD test:

libXpm
libX11
fontconfig
libxcb
libXau
libXdmcp

This is an old thread - but this topic is still current. Anybody trying to install Nagios on Slackware 14.1 without X will hit the same error message. However, unlike the case of the OP, installing the suggested packages will go past the error completely. Thanks for that!