Chapter 2. Prerequisites and Installing Cacti on Linux
In the first chapter, we learned some basic information about Cacti and SNMP. In this chapter, we will install Cacti on our localhost. Cacti runs best on Unix/Linux systems. In this book, all the examples are based on Debian Linux. If you are running a different distribution, you should be able to simply replace apt-get install with the appropriate command (urpmi, yum, and so on), like for centos you have to use yum install.
Cacti's prerequisites
Cacti has some prerequisites. You need to install these packages before installing Cacti:
RRDTool1.0.49 or higher.
NET-SNMP.
MySQL4.1.x or higher.
PHP 4.3.6 or higher.
Apache/IIS or any other web server.
We will also need to install some other packages for support. Although you can choose to use Apache, IIS, or any other web server, in this book, we will be using Apache2. If you are going to install some other web server, please follow the manual/handbook for that web server.
