DjMagra’s stuff ‘n’ stuff

If you have been having problems with installing cacti on ubuntu like I just have, this little pointer should help.

There is a bug in the current cacti package that’s sitting in the gutsy mirrors, which will result in you getting the following helpful (not!) errors when you go to log in:

Invalid PHP_SELF Path

This applies to both fresh installs and OS upgrades also.

To work around this, you will need to downgrade to a working package:

sudo aptitude install cacti=0.8.6j-1.1

That should do the trick, until the mirrors are updated with a working version