Installing FAHMon in Ubuntu

[mmonnin]

Since myself and others have not been able to install FahMon in Ubuntu I set out how to figure it out for myself and maybe learn a few things about Linux for this Windoz user. Searching across the internet I did not find a complete top to bottom user guide on how to do this. Some guides begin with “do this, get that” and I was lost already. Even the install guide in the FahMon download did not paint the entire picture.

The 1st thing that needs to be done is to download/extract the FAHMon source files. They can be downloaded at the http://fahmon.net/download.html website. The latest version at this time is 2.3.2b. For me I just went and downloaded it manually through FireFox and made my own folder and extracted it myself into a /home/FahMon folder. Of if you would like it do it all in a terminal window here is the code:

wget -O FahMon-2.3.2b.tar.bz2 --no-check-certificate "http://fahmon.net/downloads/current.php?linux"

tar xvf FahMon-2.3.2b.tar.bz2

Next we need to get the required software to compile/configure FAHMon.

sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0

sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-dev

sudo apt-get install g++

sudo apt-get install m4

Say yes to all of those and let them install if they are not already installed on your machine.

Next we follow the 3 commands listed in the INSTALL file for FAHMon which finally work if we have the required software. Navigate to your fahmon directory and type the following:

./configure

make

sudo make install

From there we can type fahmon in a terminal window and it'll open. Evidently its possible to monitor your Linux VMWare installs in Windows with Samba (cannot be used with a NAT VMWare install). Thats another adventure.

[noorman]

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Thanks for a nice job !


I 'll have to try that out (when I have more time to play around with my Kubuntu)




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