[hobbit] Distro

[Jason Hand]

Ubuntu uses the same package system as Debian, APT or Aptitude for a more
graphical system.  Hobbit is available as an APT package.

-Jason 

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Franken [mailto:nfranken at theunlimitedworld.co.za] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:48 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Distro

Hi All 

Sorry I meant Ubuntu 7.10, having a bad finger day. Ok so from what I gather
there is official Ubuntu packages for XyMon. I have not been able to track
these but have seen packages for Debian. I know Ubuntu is debian based so I
guess I could use those as well. I would preffer to have packages not
tarballs as I feel that it is easier to manage. I did install Debian 4
yesterday but since we had no internet here due to a line problem it was
quite difficult to get started.

Anyway I will consider all that you guys have said. 

Thanks for the input.

Regards
Neil


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Sloan [mailto:joe at tmsusa.com]
Sent: 03 February 2009 11:59 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Distro

Neil Franken wrote:
>
> Hi Guys
>
>  
>
> I tested XyMon on Ubuntu 7.1 and it was not too difficult to install. 
> We are now ready to deploy XyMon into production so I am looking at 
> which Distribution XyMon is the easiest to install and maintain.
> Getting things to run on Ubuntu was not a major issue but if there is 
> a easier distro I would like to use it for now.
>

Ubuntu did not make a release in January 07 (7.1?) - are you thinking of

the October 07 release (7.10)?

Compiling from source on any distro is not too hard, however we like to 
use the package management system rather than having unmanaged tarballs 
all over the place. That said, I've used hobbit packages on suse (and 
had to tweak several things to get it working due to some weird little 
redhat-isms in the build) and I've used the deb packages from the ubuntu

repo, which worked nicely out of the box.

Joe


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