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Installing RRDTool

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I've certainly found RRDTool to be more flexible than MRTG, and the resulting graphs look much nicer than the MRTG graphs.

You can download pack with install script (all programs ready to install)

tar -zx -f rrdtool_install.tar.gz ; cd rrdtool_install; ./install.sh)

Requirements
You'll need:

LIBART
LIBPNG
FREETYPE2
RRDTool

Install libart

tar -xz -f libart_lgpl-2.3.17.tar.gz
cd libart_lgpl-2.3.17
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
cd ..
rm -rf libart_lgpl-2.3.17

Install libpng

tar -xz -f libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.2.8-config
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
cd ..
rm -rf libpng-1.2.8-config

Install freetype

tar -xz -f freetype-2.1.9.tar.gz
cd freetype-2.1.9
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
cd ..
rm -rf freetype-2.1.9

Install rrdtool

tar -xz -f rrdtool.tar.gz
cd rrdtool-1.2.6/
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
cd ..
cd rrdtool-1.2.6/bindings/perl-shared/
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
cd ../../..
rm -rf rrdtool-1.2.6/