Thanks for the advice! That was the whole point of standardizing on my end is BECAUSE of the vast differences between distros and between Linux and BSD :-) It's always those pesky dependencies that seem to fail too.
I downloaded the VMWare appliance already, going to play with it now to see if it works better. THANKS! jmp242 wrote: > Well, CENTOS is free and the same as RHEL. I think developers do this > because the various Linuxes are really different OSs, and they may not > be able to easily support all of them. > > I understand that there is work going on to get packages built for > Debian based OSs, but the various dependencies seem to be a pain. > > They do provide a VMWare image that will work anywhere, but it's > debatable how well that works. > > Anyway, my useful input is this: > If you want it to work easily, install CentOS5.x and use their RPMs. > If you want to use Ubuntu, be ready to work hard to get everything > working, and maybe to do some code fixing. > -- > James Pulver > Information Technology Area Supervisor > LEPP Computer Group > Cornell University > > > > xyar wrote: > > > Why do so many open source developers do this?? That really sucks, I'd > > like to stick with what I have and not keep switching around, especially > > with the price of RHE. > > > > Also I forgot to mention I installed Ubuntu's 64-bit version of 6.06 LTS, > > not sure if that makes a difference or not. > > > > > > > > jmp242 wrote: > > > > > Indeed. Zenoss seems to be targeted at Red Hat Enterprise Linux and it's > > > derivatives like CentOS (but not SuSE which is quite different now). > > > -- > > > James Pulver > > > Information Technology Area Supervisor > > > LEPP Computer Group > > > Cornell University > > > > > > > > > > > > xyar wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Ok, I've never messed with Zenoss before but so far I'm not having tons > > > > of luck getting it installed. I've got a brand-new Dell PowerEdge 2970 > > > > that I've installed Ubuntu 6.06.9 LTS on. It will be kind of the > > > > watchdog for our entire network. > > > > > > > > I followed the great instructions at > > > > http://www.zenoss.com/community/docs/install-guides/install-on-ubuntu-6.10/ > > > > but I keep getting failure at this point in the install - > > > > > > > > Linking bin/wmis > > > > swig -I./scripting/swig -python wmi/pywmi.i > > > > make[2]: swig: Command not found > > > > make[2]: *** [wmi/pywmi_wrap.c] Error 127 > > > > make[2]: Leaving directory > > > > `/home/zenoss/zenossinst/zenossinst/build/wmi-0.1.12/Samba/source' > > > > make[1]: *** [pywmi-build] Error 2 > > > > > > > > I cannot determine what swig is and why it's not getting built > > > > automatically. I know it's preventing Samba from installing, which is > > > > preventing Zenoss from installing but am unsure how to proceed. I have > > > > tried running 'make clean' several times (which fails too) and starting > > > > over, redoing the SVN but it fails at the same spot. I'd prefer to > > > > install just a binary but cannot seem to find one for Ubuntu. > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any help! > > > > > > > > Ryan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > zenoss-users mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > zenoss-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > zenoss-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=18733#18733 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
