[Xymon] Trouble installing 4.3.4

[Martin Flemming]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I'm setting up a pair of new Xymon servers for testing. I want to do a clean install of Xymon 4.3.4. The servers are RHEL 6 (and I'm a Solaris admin so
> ...). I've downloaded the tar.gz file from Sourceforge and tried to do the configure, but I'm having some trouble with dependencies. I installed
> rrdtool-1.4.4 with yum, but cairo-png and pixman-0.10.0 are needed and I'm dealing with those. 
> Before I go beating my head to a pulp, I'm wondering if there's an easier way. I have looked for an RPM, but have found nothing. I've searched the mail
> archives and have found nothing saying "for an RPM for Xymon 4.3.4 for RHEL 6 look here...". Or anything even close to that.
> Any pointers? Or failing that, what do I need to do to get all the dependencies installed. pkg-config is giving me a headache. It is being very finicky
> about where libraries are located. 
>

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I'm setting up a pair of new Xymon servers for testing. I want to do a 
clean install of Xymon 4.3.4. The servers are RHEL 6 (and I'm a Solaris 
admin so
> ...). I've downloaded the tar.gz file from Sourceforge and tried to do 
the configure, but I'm having some trouble with dependencies. I installed
> rrdtool-1.4.4 with yum, but cairo-png and pixman-0.10.0 are needed and 
I'm dealing with those. 
> Before I go beating my head to a pulp, I'm wondering if there's an 
easier way. I have looked for an RPM, but have found nothing. I've 
searched the mail
> archives and have found nothing saying "for an RPM for Xymon 4.3.4 for 
RHEL 6 look here...". Or anything even close to that.
> Any pointers? Or failing that, what do I need to do to get all the 
dependencies installed. pkg-config is giving me a headache. It is being 
very finicky
> about where libraries are located. 
>


Hi !

I've got no problems with building on ScientificLinux 6 , a Redhat Clone

http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/

There are pixman-devel, pkgconfig and cairo-devel rpm's available for ..

and should also work on RHEL6 ... or you use the epel-repo

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

cheers,
         martin