How to install MRTG (multi router traffic grapher)

Here’s steps to install Multi Router Traffic Grapher

MRTG is a kind of tool that let you get data from SNMP.

What you have to prepare before installing MRTG:

1. gd …a graphic library

2. libpng …library needed by GD

3. zlib …library to compress data that is needed by libpng

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First, we will install zlib, you could get the file from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/

Download the zlib package.

extract the tarball

# tar xzvf zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz

change the directory name

# mv zlib-1.2.4 zlib

Enter to directory that has just created

# cd zlib

# ./configure

compile the source

# make

install the binary

# make install

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Now, install libpng…http://www.libpng.org

Download the libpng ..

# tar zxvf libpng-1.2.5.tar.gz

Change the directory name

# mv libpng-1.2.5 libpng

Enter to the directory

# cd libpng

Copy the makefile.std script from scripts directory and rename it

# cp scripts/makefile.std makefile

install the binary

# make

#make install

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