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Installing Under Unix
Please make sure, the following packages are installed according to your operating systems requirements. Verify, that httpd and mysqld are started at system startup.
Required Packages for RPM-based Operating Systems
- httpd
- php
- php-mysql
- php-snmp
- php-ldap (when using LDAP authentication)
- php-xml
- mysql
- mysql-server
- net-snmp
Ports for FreeBSD
- “www/apache2”
- “net/rrdtool”
- “net/net-snmp”
- “www/php4-cgi”
- “lang/php4” (With MySQL and SNMP Support)
- “databases/mysql323-server”
Configuration of Software Packages
Distribution Specific Installation Instructions
Unfortunately, Cacti packages from different Linux distribution may deviate from the descriptions above. A further root cause of installation trouble is different file layout, e.g. between Red Hat and Debian based distributions.
