How to install Graphite as a user on CentOS 5.5

graphite-local-install.sh

#!/bin/bash

# How to install Graphite as a user on CentOS 5.5 (with neither internet access and root account)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Tomasz Kalkosiński - refaktor.blogspot.com
#
# Graphite is a Scalable Realtime Graphing (http://graphite.wikidot.com/)

# This script is based on two excellent tutorials:
# http://community.webfaction.com/questions/10038/how-to-install-pycairo-in-python27-thanks
# https://gist.github.com/jgeurts/3112065

# My scenario:
# - no internet access
# - only user account, no root account
# - gcc and make installed
# - some libraries missing
# - no development packages for installed libraries
#
# Goals:
# - installation directory is $HOME/graphite-install
# - install libraries to $HOME
# - install Graphite and stuff to $HOME/graphite
#
# If you see wget here - wget it to your local machine and upload to remote CentOS.

# You must have gcc and make installed. You can't go on without it.
# Check it with:
# rpm -qa | grep gcc

# ---- 1. Environment setup ----
# Set up these variables. Some of these directories don't exist yet. They will be created as you go on.
# You can put these variables to your .bashrc.

export CFLAGS="-I$HOME/include -I$HOME/include/python2.7"
export CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/include  -I$HOME/include/python2.7"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/lib/pkgconfig"
export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/lib -L$HOME/lib/python2.7"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/lib:$HOME/lib/python2.7:$HOME/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cairo"
export PYTHONPATH="$HOME/lib/python:$HOME/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$HOME/.local/bin/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

# ---- 2. Libraries ----
# These libraries are required by Graphite. You need to compile them, because other libraries and python modules
# need their headers. They are installed to $HOME/lib and headers are placed in $HOME/include.

cd $HOME/graphite-install

wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
wget ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.6.2.tar.gz
wget http://www.sqlite.org/2013/sqlite-autoconf-3071700.tar.gz

tar zxf zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
tar zxf libpng-1.6.2.tar.gz
tar zxf sqlite-autoconf-3071700.tar.gz

cd zlib-1.2.8
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

cd ../libpng-1.6.2
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

cd ../sqlite-autoconf-3071700.tar.gz
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

# ---- 3. Python 2.7.5 ----
# Python installed by default in CentOS may miss some native modules compiled. You need to recompile.

cd $HOME/graphite-install
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.5/Python-2.7.5.tgz

tar zxf Python-2.7.5.tgz
cd Python-2.7.5

# enable-shared is crucial here
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME
make

# Check output for this line:
# Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were not found:
# Make sure that _zlib and _sqlite3 IS NOT on that list. Otherwise you miss dependencies or you had errors before.

make install

# Now you can have two Python installations in system. I use ~/bin/python everywhere from now on to use my version.

# ---- 4. Cairo ----
# Cairo has some dependencies to fulfill.

cd $HOME/graphite-install
wget http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.26.2.tar.gz
wget ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-3.0.11.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.31/glib-2.31.22.tar.xz
wget http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.2.tar.xz
wget http://cairographics.org/releases/py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2

tar xzf pixman-0.26.2.tar.gz
tar xzf libffi-3.0.11.tar.gz
# My system didn't have unxz so I had to download and repack to zip.
# unzip glib-2.31.22.zip
# unzip cairo-1.12.2.zip
unxz glib-2.31.22.tar.xz
unxz cairo-1.12.2.tar.xz
tar xjf py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2

cd libffi-3.0.11
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

cd ../glib-2.31.22
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

cd ../pixman-0.26.2
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

cd ../cairo-1.12.2
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make
make install

cd ../py2cairo-1.10.0
~/bin/python ./waf configure --prefix=$HOME
~/bin/python ./waf build
~/bin/python ./waf install

# Check if cairo is properly installed:
~/bin/python -c 'import cairo; print cairo.version'
# You should see cairo version number.
# If there is an import error, there is something wrong with your PYTHONPATH.

# ---- 5. Django and modules ----
# Remember that it is all installed in user directory.

cd $HOME/graphite-install
wget https://django-tagging.googlecode.com/files/django-tagging-0.3.1.tar.gz
wget https://www.djangoproject.com/m/releases/1.5/Django-1.5.1.tar.gz
wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/z/zope.interface/zope.interface-4.0.5.zip#md5=caf26025ae1b02da124a58340e423dfe
wget http://twistedmatrix.com/Releases/Twisted/11.1/Twisted-11.1.0.tar.bz2

unzip zope.interface-4.0.5.zip
tar zxf django-tagging-0.3.1.tar.gz
tar zxf Django-1.5.1.tar.gz
tar jxf Twisted-11.1.0.tar.bz2

cd zope.interface-4.0.5
~/bin/python setup.py install --user

cd ../Django-1.5.1
~/bin/python setup.py install --user

cd ../django-tagging-0.3.1
~/bin/python setup.py install --user

cd ../Twisted-11.1.0
~/bin/python setup.py install --user

# ---- 6. Graphite ----
# Remember that it is all installed into $HOME/graphite directory!

cd $HOME/graphite-install
wget https://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.10/+download/graphite-web-0.9.10.tar.gz
wget https://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.10/+download/carbon-0.9.10.tar.gz
wget https://launchpad.net/graphite/0.9/0.9.10/+download/whisper-0.9.10.tar.gz
tar -zxvf graphite-web-0.9.10.tar.gz
tar -zxvf carbon-0.9.10.tar.gz
tar -zxvf whisper-0.9.10.tar.gz

cd whisper-0.9.10
~/bin/python setup.py install --home=$HOME/graphite

cd ../carbon-0.9.10
~/bin/python setup.py install --home=$HOME/graphite

cd ../graphite-web-0.9.10

# You're almost there. Check if all dependencies are met:
~/bin/python check-dependencies.py

# There should be no fatal errors, only warnings for optional modules.
~/bin/python setup.py install --home=$HOME/graphite

# ---- 7. Configuration ----

cd $HOME/graphite/conf

# Copy example configurations
cp carbon.conf.example carbon.conf
cp storage-schemas.conf.example storage-schemas.conf
vim storage-schemas.conf
# You should really read document on how to configure your storage. It is a quick read:
# http://graphite.wikidot.com/getting-your-data-into-graphite
# Configure it the way you need.

cd $HOME/graphite/lib/python/graphite
cp local_settings.py.example local_settings.py

vim local_settings.py
# This file is crucial:
# Line around 13: setup your TIME_ZONE from this list: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13866926/python-pytz-list-of-timezones
# Line around 23: DEBUG = True
# Line around 24: append ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*"]
# Lines around 46-54: change paths from /opt/graphite to your explicit graphite installation dir,
# for example /home/you/graphite. $HOME doesn't work here!
# Uncomment lines 141-150 (starting with DATABASES) and update NAME with full explicit database path. $HOME doesn't work here!

# Create new database for Graphite web application
~/bin/python manage.py syncdb

# Start carbon deamon
cd $HOME/graphite
~/bin/python carbon-cache.py status
~/bin/python carbon-cache.py start

# I run development graphite server in a screen, since I cannot expose it via httpd.
screen

# In screen
~/bin/python manage.py runserver

# Detach with Control-A, Control-D (attach again with screen -r next time)

# Check if it works, you should see <title>Graphite Browser</title>
curl localhost:8000

# You can run some example client to send some stats.
# You can adjust example-client.py delay value for more/less stats.
cd $HOME/graphite/examples
~/bin/python example-client.py

# Done!
# Easy as pie :)

thank you, thank you for this.!!!