Sorry if this is a simple thing, I sometimes tend to fumble with Linux.

Rather than upgrade my older version, 0.8.8b I thought I would start over. I created a new Debian 9.5.0 virtualbox, set it up and followed the directions on the download page listed under the sticky announcing 1.3.38,

Debian Linux users install Cacti using:

apt-get install cacti


What I end up with appears to be a 0.8.8h, just wondering if there is a different process than the one there or something I'm missing. I looked over the stuff on Github and seems to be more of an advanced user setup, and doesn't go into the install pieces on linux.

Thanks in advance.

That would be down to the package maintainers. If you use the backports repo, I think that does contain 1.1.x

Alternatively, the more advanced methods is that you can use GitHub. I have links in my signature for how I setup three sites at a time on a given OS. You can always trim that back to using just the "/usr/share/cacti/site" as a single site and ignore the other /usr/share/cacti/develop/ and /usr/share/cacti/feature/ ones.

One day, I may even write a page that just lets you pick the OS and number of sites, then creates the script for you.

You will also need to get the same version of Spine as your Cacti version. Again, my wiki has instructions on how to compile that.

Cool thank you. I figured it was something with the repos but didn't know how to point to one that might have the more current stuff.

I actually found a site that gave a full step by step, and was able to locate a couple steps that had me stumbling. Thanks to Matt Vas for his writeup. https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/install-cacti-on-debian-9/

Looks like a fairly decent write up. Your only problem will following those guides is that you'll have to manually update your cacti sources and recompiled spine yourself when you do things this way. It's one of the things that stops people upgrading to new versions.

Ok, one thing I can't find and it probably doesn't matter. Do we need to create a cacti user or do the install under a user other than root? Having some odd issues and am going to start fresh just wanted to check that.

So there are usually two parts to Cacti. The website, and the poller/spine. The website usually runs under the same user as what apache has been configured. For debian/ubuntu this is normally www-data which is a non-login user. The poller is run via a cron entry and that can run as either root or the website user, but can another user as long s it has write access to the rra folders.