Time for action – installing the missing packages

The default CentOS installation is missing several important packages. So, we are now going to install these.

  1. Install the RPMForge repository. For a 32bit CentOS installation this can be achieved by executing the following command (all on one line):
    rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
  2. The RPMForge repository includes an RRDtool version for CentOS.
  3. Issue the following command to install all required packages:
    yum install mysql-server php-mysql net-snmp-utils rrdtool php-snmp

What just happened?

You just gave the system a location to find the remaining packages needed for the Cacti installation and then installed them; therefore, you ...

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