Compiling Cactid for Redhat/Fedora Linux

Before you continue, check if any pre-compiled packages are available for your version of Redhat/Fedora Linux. These instructions will help you compile Cactid from source if no binary packages are available.

Prerequisites

Make sure that the following packages are installed before attempting to compile Cactid:

• net-snmp-devel
• mysql
• mysql-devel
• openssl-devel

Compiling Cactid

Download the latest source distribution of Cactid and run the following commands to get a working binary:

tar xvzf cacti-cactid-0.8.6.tar.gz
cd cactid-0.8.6
./configure
make

Now you must move your new binary, cactid and cactid.conf to a more permanent home such as /usr/local/cactid. Edit the cactid.conf file and specify your database connection information for Cacti.

You should now be ready to start using Cactid!