On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:47:20PM +0800, dennis wrote:
> (3) maraming salamat po,any tips po.

Yes I have one tip: Don't compile from source if a binary package, 
specifically compiled for your distro, is already available from
reliable sources.

A binary rpm for rrdtool for Centos 4.x is available at rpmforge...

  # yum --enablerepo=rpmforge list rrdtool
  Setting up repositories
  Reading repository metadata in from local files
  Available Packages
  rrdtool.i386                             1.2.15-1.el4.rf        rpmforge

If your machine have rpmforge-release[1] package installed and it is
connected to the internet, install rrdtool by simply issuing this in the
CLI as root:

  yum --enablerepo=rpmforge  install rrdtool

If it isn't connected to the internet, find one to download rrdtool and 
all required packages from a rpmforge mirror[2]. Just don't download
the packages that are already installed on your machine.

According to this, rrdtool depends on freetype, glibc, libart_lgpl,
libpng, perl, perl-rrdtool and zlib:

  # yum --enablerepo=rpmforge deplist rrdtool | grep provider: | sed 
's/\..*$//' | sort -u
  provider: freetype
  provider: glibc
  provider: libart_lgpl
  provider: libpng
  provider: perl
  provider: perl-rrdtool
  provider: rrdtool
  provider: zlib


[1] http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B
[2] http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/RPMS.dag/

HTH

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