RE: [Ntop-dev] successful fedora install + instructions

[Burton M. Strauss III]

Title: successful fedora install + instructions

That's pretty much vanilla instructions - install the necessary libraries, ./configure, make, make install

 

The cr*p for RedHat 9 comes about because RH distributes two incompatible versions of gd, with various programs statically linked to one or the other.  Just like RH8 used to have problems with libpng.  If you install enough stuff (anything beyond a minimal install), you get bit.

 

The real reason Fedora is so easy (vice RH), is that it doesn't have much beyond the basic OS.  Unlike RH which by 8 and 9 had grown to include not only the kitchen sink (3 models) but the entire factory to MAKE six more kitchen sinks.

 

But, thanks for the confirmation it works - can you check linuxrelease in the utils area and let me know what needs to be modified?

 

-----Burton

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Horta, Benny
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:05 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [Ntop-dev] successful fedora install + instructions

You might want to add some of this to the FAQ even the CVS part since most people might not know how to add env variables etc... so doing the cvs -d saves you the trouble of figuring things out, and the rest is stuff for fedora-1 core

With fedora it was an easier install then redhat when it comes to ntop

I was able to compile and install redhat with no problems

Make sure in the fedora command prompt enter the following commands

yum install gd-devel
yum install gd-progs
yum install gd-devel

this will install the required files/libraries for a successful compile.

the nice thing about fedora is you do not need to tinker around with any gd hacks to get it to point to the right libs etc..

this is the steps I usually do on new fedora boxes 100% success rate.
# cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/export/home/ntop login
# cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/export/home/ntop checkout ntop
# yum install gd-devel
# yum install gd-progs
# yum install gd-devel
# cd ntop
# ./configure
# make
# make install