On Sat, September 18, 2010 3:37 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: > "Voytek Eymont" <li...@sbt.net.au> writes:
>> I want to use this on another Centos 5x, do I need to copy anything >> else beside recursive /usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.27? > > Maybe. That setup /looks/ like a complete install of rrdtool under that > path, but unless you actually know that there is no assurance it is true. > >> or is it a 'bad idea' to copy from one system? > > Generally, maybe. Technically, no, it should work fine by and large. > You > might run into issues having to get older versions of libraries that the > binary depends on, and if the glibc versions are far enough apart their > could be trouble, but it *should* work. > > However, outside the strictly technical you are probably inviting even > *more* > effort and suffering later using a hand-managed version of that package. > yes, it wasn't the best idea, just as you've hinted: even though both system are 'same' Centos, they obviously differ somewhat, source install that worked on the old box didn't on the new one, when I attempted to install the missing dependency, it complained about another, at that point I decide that 30 seconds to wait for web page too load might be a better option at this point. -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
