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
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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