My drives are failing and Im going to create a fresh system from scratch.
I have not installed a contrib for a while, so first of all I got a bunch of errors, did the research and found that I had to read about the changes to the mirrors etc.
Important Update Information for SME 7.xx Users - Special Instructions
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=48424.0Ok followed the instructions. Good seems to have installed the files happily.
Now The first contribs that I was going to install was
http://wiki.contribs.org/Sysmon However I get the error
Error: Missing Dependency: libart_lgpl_2.so.2 is needed by package rrdtool
I read up on this and see the following Bug report
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3847I tried to read some of the other messages regarding this error, and I think what its saying is that this basically is not going to work untill SME 8. Is that right? Some have tried to install the rpm from other sources but it seems to create other problems.
I have two questions.
Have I read this properly. Or is there a way to get this dependency, for this and other contribs.
Secondly if it is ture that they can't be run should there be a NOTE on this contrib and it also appears
http://wiki.contribs.org/SystemMonitorBecause it seems to suffer from the same problem. (Im sure there are others).
This would help people who come to those contribs see clearly if they work or not and not waste time on installing them if they do not. I dont understand enough about the various rpms and addons needed to understand the issue. But I guess Im trying to think of the end users like myself at least going to the help page and it clearly saying its not going to work or what have you. I would be happy to add it to the documentation, but I dont understand it enough to do so.
I would love to try SME 8 however, I read that it should not be used on a production system, and I take this to mean what it says, and this is a production system so I can't.
Regards