Her er hvordan jeg installer rrdtool fra sourcefiler.

Installer prereqs:
# apt-get install intltool  libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libxml++1.0-dev

download rrdtool:
# wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool.tar.gz

Udpak filerne:
# tar -zxvf rrdtool.tar.gz

CD til mappen:
# cd rrdtool-1.3.8/

kør Configure:
# ./configure

Sucessfull Configure output.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Config is DONE!

          With MMAP IO: yes
      Build rrd_getopt: no
       Static programs: no
          Perl Modules: perl_piped perl_shared
           Perl Binary: /usr/bin/perl
          Perl Version: 5.10.0
          Perl Options: PREFIX=$(DESTDIR)/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.8 LIB=$(DESTDIR)/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.8/lib/perl/5.10.0
          Ruby Modules:
           Ruby Binary: no
          Ruby Options: sitedir=$(DESTDIR)/usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.8/lib/ruby
    Build Tcl Bindings: no
 Build Python Bindings: no
          Build rrdcgi: yes
       Build librrd MT: yes
     Link with libintl: yes

             Libraries: -lxml2 -lcairo -lcairo -lcairo -lm  -lcairo -lpng12   -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0

Type 'make' to compile the software and use 'make install' to
install everything to: /usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.8.

       ... that wishlist is NO JOKE. If you find RRDtool useful
make me happy. Go to http://tobi.oetiker.ch/wish and
place an order.

                               -- Tobi Oetiker
 

Compile RRDTool:
# make

Installer RRDTool:

# make install

Test RRDtool:
# /usr/local/rrdtool-1.3.8/bin/rrdtool

successfuldt output:

RRDtool 1.3.8  Copyright 1997-2009 by Tobias Oetiker <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
               Compiled Jul 12 2009 22:21:52

Usage: rrdtool [options] command command_options

Valid commands: create, update, updatev, graph, graphv,  dump, restore,
                last, lastupdate, first, info, fetch, tune,
                resize, xport

RRDtool is distributed under the Terms of the GNU General
Public License Version 2. (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)

For more information read the RRD manpages