Installation of “monitord” under Raspberry PI

Question

Can anyone tell me how to install the program monitord under raspberry pi (raspbian)? Maybe a tutorial or smth.?

I checked google but found nothing....

Answer 1

I didn't try but it should work:

1. Download the sources from http://www.monitord.de/?article=2
2. Untar
3. In the folder you extracted at step 2 open a terminal and type ./configure
4. Compile the code usin make
5. Install the program using make install as sudo

This is a typical installation of a software from source code on a Linux OS. So it should work on Raspbian too. But you'll have to deal with the dependencies of the program and sometimes that's really hard.

Answer 2

I would suggest the same thing as @23ars, but a little change. Install checkinstall. Follow 23ars suggestions, but replace step 5. With

 sudo checkinstall -D

(when using checkinstall, if the version auto populates, make sure it starts with a number not a letter (like v10.1), if it has a letter just press 3 and change the release to start with a number.

Then follow the easy prompts. This will use checkinstall to install as well as make a. deb for you that you can back up and use again if you ever have to reinstall OS. Or if monitord updates, you can easily uninstall old version with

 sudo dpkg -r monitord 

And then recompile/install new version same way