Hello Simon, On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:21:26 +0000 Simon Wilcox <simonw+smokeping...@simonwilcox.co.uk> wrote: > Smokeping has the ability to run in a master/slave configuration. > > In the slave configuration data is sent to a master server and a local > apache installation is not required. > > We want to install smokeping on devices that should not have apache > installed, to use as slaves to a master server but we can't do this with > the current dependency chain. > > May I request that the smokeping package is divided into two, with a > data collector package separate from a web-UI package. Or possibly that > you consider a separate smokeping-slave package that would leave the > current smokeping package untouched. > > I know that we could roll our own package or install outside of the > package system altogether so perhaps you may wish to re-grade this > ticket to a wishlist request rather than a bug but I've filed it as such > since we can't use the package for our use case at this time. > > Thank you for the time and effort you give to the Debian project and for > taking the time to consider this bug.
This bug report has been open forever. I've taken a look at this and I believe that the state of the package has changed in a way that could permit installing smokeping without apache: apache2 is currently a "Recommends" for smokeping (it has been at least since the version that was in jessie). so you can install the package using this to avoid apache: apt install --no-install-recommends smokeping Note that in that case you might need to manually install some additional packages if you need them: dnsutils, echoping and libsocket6-perl are also recommends and won't be installed because of the option. I believe that using this option, you can create an install of smokeping for using it with the "slave" mode without having apache on the same machine. Cheers!
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