Between apt-get, up2date, yum or smart and a few more, which one is the best?. Actually I dont have favorite package manager. I just use whatever the server already has on board. If on Ubuntu, apt-get is more than enough. Right now I'm working on Centos 5 that need rrdtool package. By default, the yum repository configuration on Centos 5 does not have rrdtool in it. Thanks to dag wieers for his remarkable effort. Although he had some issue with yum developers previously. Nothing much I can help over there, so back to work.
Well, now create a file called dag.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ just like below
[root@yoebuntu yum.repos.d]# cat dag.repo
[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
enabled=1
[root@yoebuntu yum.repos.d]#
and then
[root@yoebuntu yum.repos.d]# yum install rrdtool
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Installing rrdtool using yum
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Hey thanks for that.... Centos needs to get rrdtool in!
thanks for pointing that out hi hi. guess its ok now.
And yes, at least get the configuration for dag's repo in.
hello..thanks for the tip but i've tried doing what you instructed but for some reason it doesn't work, im using centOS 5 too, i don't know if it matters but im just using vmware, everytime i try yum install rrdtool, there comes an error like metadata does not match checksum and http://apt.sw.....no more mirrors to try..
can you give me a step by step tutorials in doing this?
im trying to install cacti..
shikakage..you might wanna try to manually browse to the dag's repository. For centos 5, it should point to http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/RPMS/
(you will find rrdtool-1.2.23-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm in there) and the try the url for signature file as well, http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/
RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
if you can browse to both of em, then it should work. I dont have vmware installed to test it out, but i doubt it will gives different result.
i did what you told me sir, but i changed the baseurl with http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/RPMS/
but the error now is
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml : [errno 14] HTTP error 404: Not Found trying another mirror. Error:cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dag
try to put the baseurl without RPMS inline http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/
hope it works.
i've already tried that, but another error comes up..HTTP not found..
are you using any proxy? If not, try yum clean all, and try yum install again. I'm sorry but i really have no idea what went wrong. ermm or you might want to try other method(eg. apt-get) to install rrdtool. Please refer here "http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B2"
OR you can always try to download and install the tarball itself.
thanks a bunch sir, im sorry for the trouble, i'll tell you how it goes..but what do i do if i am using proxy? i tried to install it manually but the dependencies are killing me, thanks for the help..really appreciate it..
Thanks for your help on this installation i was stuck.... God bless you.
I am Angel from Rwanda
Great job, worked like a charm.
I tried this and it seemed to be working but then it failed with the following:
---> Package rrdtool.i386 0:1.2.30-1.el4.rf set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: perl(RRDs) for package: rrdtool
--> Processing Dependency: perl(RRDp) for package: rrdtool
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(RRDs) is needed by package rrdtool
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(RRDp) is needed by package rrdtool
Any suggestions?
Thanks
-Matt
mm try to edit you dag.repo file and add "includepkgs=perl-rrdtool" without quote to the last line of the file.. and then re-run yum install again.
Hello there,
Thanks for this quick howto! I did everything like you wrote and stuck checking new rrdtool installation:
# cd /usr/share/rrdtool/examples/
# ./stripes.pl
No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
library is not correctly configured. You may need to
edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
page and on http://fontconfig.org
# rpm -q fontconfig
fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5
Sorry for I am jobless now and dont have resources to test it out. But googling around suggests that rrdtool requires certain type of fonts to work. Majority of users with similar problem sort it out by installing one of the font. Try one of the following:
yum install dejavu-fonts
if it fails, try
yum install dejavu-lgc-fonts.noarch
Yep, that helps! Thanks a lot!
That helps alot! Thank you so much
Thanks
Its working fine
I got the following error:
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno 12] Timeout: urlopen error timed out
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from dag: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
William,
Looks like you probably have trouble accessing the repo via the internet. Please check your connection. And mm
actually this page is a bit outdated, I mean it should be much easier now. The repo has been collaborate into one big project called rpmforge. Please try here for proper setup of yum, I always use this step as a Centos post installation. Alternatively, you can always refer to here to use the repo. Lastly, if you're new to the repo, please go thru the FAQ at DAG website. Thanks.
yoe
Thanks!
You rock!
Top banana!!!!!!
It works. Thanks a lot
Great job! Thanks a lot.
Interesting article, added his blog to Favorites
You guys rule! Thanks for the quick rerdtool install.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Hi,
Thanks you solved my problem with fonts not found..
Installing the dejavu-lgc-fonts.noarch package solved my issue.
- Anj
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