Help with Debain cacti install

[backspace79]

I have tried to use the guide posted in this message board called: Debian Sarge Cacti Install Howto (http://forums.cacti.net/post-40892.html) to install cacti but still cant seem to get it to work. So it seems Im missing something. Here is what I think needs to be done to install Cacti on a fresh Debian install. If something looks wrong or there is a better way please let me know.

aptitude install cacti
- Installs all the required packages for cacti

Default on all questions and use cacti for any and all names and passwords during setup.
- Get prompt about “libsensors3 not functional”
-Get prompt that “MySQL installs and upgrades must be performed
manually” and to see /usr/share/doc/cacti/README.Debian.gz
-Get prompt about "libphp-adodb isn't longer installed in /usr/lib/adodb.
etc." (according to the other guide this is not valid and should be
ignored)

adduser cacti
- Adds a user to Debian and prompts for additional info about user

mysqladmin --user=root create cacti

mysql -u root -e "grant all privileges on cacti.* to cacti@localhost identified by 'cacti'; flush privileges;"
-not sure if “localhost” here should be replaced with your Debians IP
address

zcat /usr/share/doc/cacti/cacti.sql.gz | mysql -u cacti --password=cacti

echo "extension=mysql.so" >> /etc/php4/apache/php.ini
-don’t know if this is needed

FINISHED
That should be it according to the howto but when I browse to http://192.168.1.8/cacti I get nothing but errors like:
“Warning: mysql_connect(): Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server”

What if anything am I missing. I’m on Debian install number 2 and am willing to go for number 3 if need be but I want to make sure I am doing the cacti install properly first.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Time to go and continue banging my head against the wall for a bit.

[bendsley]

Don't use the package that comes with debian, instead download the tar.gz file from cacti.net and read the unix install package.

Use apt or aptitude to install apache, mysql-server, mysql-client, php4, etc.

The following are the php4 packages I have installed.

nms:~/cacti# dpkg -l | grep php
3ii php4 4.3.10-15 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting languag
ii php4-cgi 4.3.10-15 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting languag
ii php4-cli 4.3.10-15 command-line interpreter for the php4 script
ii php4-common 4.3.10-15 Common files for packages built from the php
ii php4-curl 4.3.10-15 CURL module for php4
ii php4-gd 4.3.10-15 GD module for php4
ii php4-ldap 4.3.10-15 LDAP module for php4
ii php4-mysql 4.3.10-15 MySQL module for php4
ii php4-odbc 4.3.10-15 ODBC module for php4
ii php4-pear 4.3.10-15 PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Reposit
ii php4-rrdtool 1.04-11 RRD module for php4
ii php4-snmp 4.3.10-15 SNMP module for php4
ii php4-xslt 4.3.10-15 XSLT module for php4
ii phpmyadmin 2.6.2-3 set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL ove
ii phpsysinfo 2.3-4 PHP based host information

[backspace79]

Thanks for the info. Im going to give the manual install a try and hope for the best on last time. Also how do you go about instaling all the addtional php4 paskages?. Thanks again for your help