Ploticus unable to create png.

[krondorl]

Hi,

I have everything installed and would like to be able to see the graph in the server performance page as part of the system maintenance requirements of our installation. For some reason I am getting the following when trying to create the graph.

PNG not supported in this build (plpng not found).

Usage: pl -prefab prefabname [parameters] ..or.. pl scriptfile [options]
This build can produce: ps eps svg

ploticus 2.32 (unix) Copyright 1998-2005 Steve Grubb,

I have searched but have not been able to find any indications on how to get ploticus to recognize png creation. I have libpng installed and zlib.

Running the latest of all softwares (Asterisk/vicidial/gentoo)

Thanks

Kron

[ramindia]

Hi

as mentioned in the document of scratch_install
did you copied pl to vicidial directory

ram

[krondorl]

Hi

as mentioned in the document of scratch_install
did you copied pl to vicidial directory

ram

Yes I did. Before I had done that, I got a completely different error until I noticed I had missed that.

[ramindia]

Hi

is this server fresh setup

or is this server running have some data

if no data available that range you selected
its not going to graph. you need to have some data.

check apache logs

ram

[krondorl]

Hi

is this server fresh setup

or is this server running have some data

if no data available that range you selected
its not going to graph. you need to have some data.

check apache logs

ram

Hi, That was the message in the apache error-log file.

[ramindia]

Hi

PNG not supported in this build (plpng not found)

Do you have png package installed?

what distro ?

ram

[krondorl]

Hi

PNG not supported in this build (plpng not found)

Do you have png package installed?

# equery l libpng
[ Searching for package 'libpng' in all categories among: ]
* installed packages
[I--] [ ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.18-r1 (1.2)

# equery l ploticus
[ Searching for package 'ploticus' in all categories among: ]
* installed packages
[I--] [ ] media-libs/ploticus-2.32 (0)

what distro ?

I am using Linux version 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 as my distro.

[ramindia]

Hi

I googled it

http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q= ... d%29&meta=

check some results may help you,

i have never come across this problem

ram

[krondorl]

Hi

I googled it

.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=PNG+not+supported+in+this+build+%28plpng+not+found%29&meta=

check some results may help you,

i have never come across this problem

ram

Ya I saw those, the problem is, most of those are coding related to Windows systems. Not one is unix related.
<sigh>
I've decided to send an email to Steve Grubb about it, hopefully he will respond.

[krondorl]

Problem resolved.....

Seems that in a base server installation of a Gentoo Distro, gd is no always installed. Ploticus requires gd to make the graphics possible. All I needed to do was add a use flag to the package.use to over-ride the gd flag and re-emerged ploticus.. All is good..