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I am new to MRTG/RRDTool so I purchased the book to get started.

I am trying to install the rpms from the companion CD however there are failed dependencies:

[root@localhost redhat]# rpm -Uvh rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
warning: rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
error: Failed dependencies:
lua is needed by rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386
perl(RRDp) is needed by rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386
perl(RRDs) is needed by rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386
[root@localhost redhat]#

I am running RHEL 5.3 with all the software development libraries installed. Is there a step-by-step guide or a different recommended version of RHEL?

For the perl errors, you should install the perl-rrdtool RPM at the same time (it is in the same directory on the companion CD).

The lua error can be ignored unless you want to use lua, in which case you can get the lua RPM from http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html (if you're using 64bit then search similarly for the 64bit)

You can use the --nodeps option to RPM to tell it to ignore the lua dependency.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

Steve, thanks for the post. I had tried installing perl-rrdtool rpm first but it looks like rrdtool is a dependency:

[root@localhost redhat]# rpm -Uvh perl-rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
warning: perl-rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
error: Failed dependencies:
librrd.so.4 is needed by perl-rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386
rrdtool = 1.4.4 is needed by perl-rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386

Install them simultaneously --

rpm -Uvh --nodeps perl-rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm rrdtool-1.4.4-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11