Installation on an Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (also for Debian)

Install first the required packages.

$ sudo apt-get install rrdtool librrds-perl apache2 libwww-perl
      

Download and extract the Monitorix package.

$ wget http://www.monitorix.org/monitorix-1.3.2.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf monitorix-1.3.2.tar.gz
      

Go to the Monitorix directory and execute the install script.

$ cd monitorix-1.3.2
$ sudo ./install.sh

Welcome to Monitorix v1.3.2 installation process.

The install script has detected that this is a Linux operating system.

Currently Monitorix supports only the following Linux distributions:
	1 - RedHat/Fedora/CentOS
	2 - Generic
	3 - Debian (Ubuntu)
	4 - Gentoo
	5 - Slackware

	Please select your option: 
      

Choose the option number 3 (Debian).

The following is a list of the default paths where the Monitorix components
will be installed:

	1 - /usr/bin
	2 - /etc
	3 - /etc/init.d
	4 - /var/lib
	5 - /usr/share/doc
	6 - /var/www
	7 - /usr/lib/cgi-bin
	8 - /usr/share/man/man5

Last chance to stop the installation.
Are you sure to install Monitorix on the paths shown? [y/n]: 
      

The list of paths should be correct. Press y.

Finally start Monitorix.

sudo service monitorix start
      

Now wait for a while and then go to http://localhost/monitorix/.

Don't forget to start the Apache web server!.