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Compiling the latest RRDTool

cd ~
wget http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/pub/rrdtool-1.4.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf rrdtool-1.4.1.tar.gz
cd rrdtool-1.4.1
INSTALL_DIR=/opt/rrdtool-1.4.1
sudo mkdir $INSTALL_DIR
sudo chmod 777 $INSTALL_DIR
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_DIR && make && make install
cd $INSTALL_DIR
sudo cp -r * /usr
rm -r ~/rrdtool-1.4.1

If you want to bypass the steps above and use a possibly-older version of RRD tool, just run:

sudo apt-get install librrd2-dev rrdtool

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