[HOWTO] Installing Cacti on Ubuntu

[jdr0berts]

Is this the easiest way to get cacti to work?

I'm having real trouble getting this running - I've been through the instructions (though not those complicated ones listed by 7echno7im) and it seems to install without any hassle, but when I go to the myip/cacti/ I get a blank page....

Not exactly apt-get install simplicity... which is what I was expecting.

However, I'm new to this linux stuff - so far set home server up with slimserver, samba....

(Edgy 6.10)

Cheers
J

[7echno7im]

I tried many, many times to get all of the easy install instructions to work on ubuntu server and never once got any of them to work fully. Thta's why i wrote my own. If you are using Uubntu desktop, you can follow the XAMPP ones, but trust me when I say, I tried it many times. About 10 rebuilds on virtual servers before getting it right.

[aldibi]

When using the instruction "apt-get install cacti-cactid" to install Cacti in an Ubuntu 9.04 (or earlier) environment you will find that the distribution actually downloads Cacti version 0.8.7b, it places the application and data files in Ubuntu specific directories, and requires Unbuntu/Debian specific patches for config.php, debian.php, global.php, and global-settings.php (not a complete list)

We have updated our tutorial on how to work through this, in particular upgrading from the 0.8.7b distribution Ubuntu provides, now to 0.8.7e, and applying the Debian/Ubuntu specific patches for 0.8.7e

01_config.php.patch
05_no-adodb.patch
06_config_settings.php_cactid_path.patch
cli-include-path.patch

http://patch-tracking.debian.net/package/cacti/0.8.7e-1

The full tutorial is here: http://www.open4energy.com/tutorials/virtualbox/cacti

PS - I would post it here, but it is really too many pages!

PPS - We are not a support business, we use Cacti for data center energy management - we use Ubuntu and Virtual machines to get a standard quick build, and have worked through these issues for our needs - We hope that our experience might help others using cacti with Ubuntu or Debian, particularly those new to Cacti

[sergiomc]

I used http://forums.cacti.net/about34055.html to install cacti 0.8.7e, spine and PA 2.5 in Ubuntu 9.04 and it work perfect