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It was thus said that the Great Jules Richardson once stated: Just try figuring out the absolute minimum dependencies of a modern application though. For instance, I use Cacti [1] and I *have* installed that by hand but man, it's a real pain. Cacti requires the use of RRDTool [2] which itself required a few libraries for manipulating JPEGs, PNGs, and GIFs, along with a free font support system. Cacti also requires MySQL [3] so there's *that* app, and SNMP so you can't forget that base of utilties/library. Cacti, being written in PHP, requires *that* along with a number of PHP modules (for talking with MySQL, integration with GD, integration with SNMP and to see the results, you need Apache with PHP support. Oh, and cron. Can't forget cron, which runs a PHP script every five minutes to poll the devices being monitored. And I've yet to figure out what's required to get USB block storage devices supported under Linux [4]. -spc (Who has more experience with Cobalt RaQs than he cares to admit) [1] Network monitoring tool that uses SNMP to make pretty graphs. [2] A suit of programs/library that is used to store data from a time series in a fixed-length file (as the data gets older, it gets resampled into larger time slices). [3] A monster of a program, but while huge, it's pretty easy to compile and install (and yes, I've done that too, since pre-built binaries for one of the architectures we have are hard to come by). [4] I found it easier to reinstall Linux to get that support than to try to figure out how to get it working myself. When I first installed the system, I didn't include USB support since I didn't need it on the server. A couple of years later though, and our backups are done to an external harddrive connected via USB. It was quicker for me to reinstall the OS than to divine the arcane incantations.