Hi,
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 05:08:19PM -0600, trever at tandj.org wrote:
Trying to install Xymon on Debian 9 and it is failing do to missing package librrd2-dev.
Huh? Which packages did you try to install? The official ones from Debian's apt repositories? (They don't have a dependency on librrd2-dev, just on librrd8, and the according build-dependency is librrd-dev.)
Or did you try to build (and not install) xymon locally? (If so: Why?)
This package is not available in the apt repository.
No more. librrd2-dev was removed from Debian in 2008, i.e. 10 years ago. Seems as if you got either an horribly outdated package or some outdated installation documentation.
The instructions that are available talk about installing on Debian 6 Squeeze. Are there update instructions anywhere?
To which documentation do you refer? To https://www.xymon.com/help/install.html#commondebian6? That's definitely outdated. As seem many of the documentation for installing on Linux and BSD.
Anyway: If you're on Debian 9 Stretch: Just do "apt install xymon" and you get the (currently) latest Xymon stable release from the official Debian repositories, guaranteed to play well with other packages from Debian Stable. No need to compile them yourself or use any 3rd party apt repositories.
Kind regards, Axel (with Debian xymon package maintainer hat on)--
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