Install RRDtool 1.4.7 on CentOS 6

Question

I'm trying to install Zenoss core 4.2.3 which requires RRDtool 1.4.7. CentOS 6 comes with RRDtool 1.3.8

So, I've downloaded the RPM rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm and tried to install it, which gave me the following output:

[root@automation-zenoss tmp]# rpm -i rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libdbi.so.0()(64bit) is needed by rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64
perl(RRDp) is needed by rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64
perl(RRDs) is needed by rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64
perl(Time::HiRes) is needed by rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64

So I've downloaded perl-rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm and tried to install it which gave me the following output:

[root@automation-zenoss tmp]# rpm -i perl-rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
rrdtool = 1.4.7 is needed by perl-rrdtool-1.4.7-1.el6.rfx.x86_64

It seems like I'm stuck in a loop where I can't install RRDtool since it requires something that requires the RRDtool.

Is there a way to install RRDtool 1.4.7 on CentOS 6?

Thanks

Solution 1

As the first failed dependency was: libdbi.so.0()(64bit), installing or updating libdbi would have been my first suggestion.

Solution 2

Downloaded https://pkgs.org/centos-6/repoforge-x86_64/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm.html and installed it.

I was able to install RRD tools by using the command yum -y --enablerepo='rpmforge*' install rrdtool-1.4.7