Mohammad Forouzani

Xymon (hobbit) installation tutorial

Posted on 02. Oct, 2007 by forouzani.

Before installing Xymon, we need to make sure its dependancies are installed – this includes PCRE, RRDTool and fping.
Installing PCRE
Installing the Perl Compatible Regular Expression library is quite simple:
# yum install pcre pcre-devel
You may also need to create a soft link from /usr/include/pcre/pcre.h to /usr/include/pcre.h
# ln -s /usr/include/pcre.h /usr/include/pcre/pcre.h
Installing RRDTool
RRDTool itself also has dependancies, in [...]

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How to Install Kdiff3 on Ubuntu

Posted on 28. Dec, 2006 by forouzani.

Kdiff3 is my favorite diff / merge tool – it has been for many years, and it probably will be forever; but it doesn’t come listed in some of the software repositories for ubuntu (such as the latest one I am using – Oneiric Ocelot). To install kdiff3 on any versions of Ubuntu where you [...]

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