The Pragmatic MRTG Installation

update 04/30/2002

By Colin A. Bitterfield
EX-SUN Microsystems, Inc.

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In trying to install MRTG "Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG)", I came across the famous error.
"Libpng compiled with 1.0.6 and running with 1.x.x versions of libpng <= 1.0.6 does not work."

I compiled a static linked package for MRTG 2.9.17 it can be found here:

 
This should work with a SUN SPARC, Solaris 8 (02/02) install w/Companion CD Loaded.

You do not need any additional libraries or packages from http://www.sunfreeware.com.

The package will install in /usr/local/mrtg-2.

Please do not direct any questions on the configuration files, contributed software, or general newbie questions at me.

To install this package.

1. Download the package
2. Verify whether or not your web browser changed the format

• $ file mrtg-2.9.17-sol8-sun4u-local.gz (or whatever you saved it as).

3. If the package is gzip'd then gzip -d mrtg-2.9.17-sol8-sun4u-local.gz, if not do nothing.
4. $ pkgadd -d  mrtg-2.9.17-sol8-sun4u-local
5. cd /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin
6. Ready to go....

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