installing pcp for vector on ubuntu

installing-pcp

# Install PCP from source to run [Vector](http://vectoross.io/)
#
# Why this gist?
#
# Instructions were reasonable except the vectoross just directed me to [pcp.io](http://pcp.io).
# The PCP instructions were to just install directly with `apt-get install pcp`. However, deep
# within the issues I found out that `pmwebd` which is being used by Vector is only installed
# from source. And that the list of installations of dependencies are from `./qa/admin/check-vm`.
# Also like the installation says, the QA labeled dependencies from that list do not have to
# be installed.
#
# This worked for my setup. Run the following as root.

git clone git://git.pcp.io/pcp
cd pcp

# Get a list of installs (every dependency that is not QA)
./qa/admin/check-vm

# This is my list of installs
apt-get install autoconf gdb chrpath sysv-rc-conf python3-all-dev libcairo2-dev libsasl2-dev libibumad-dev libibmad-dev libavahi-common-dev libpapi-dev libpfm4-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev python-json-pointer python3-json-pointer python3-setuptools libextutils-autoinstall-perl libyaml-libyaml-perl libxml-tokeparser-perl libslurm-perl librrds-perl libspreadsheet-writeexcel-perl libjson-perl libwww-perl libnet-snmp-perl avahi-utils python-requests sysstat libmicrohttpd-dev libsoqt-dev-common libcoin80-dev libsoqt4-dev libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev libnss3-tools

# Follow [installation instructions](https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp/blob/master/INSTALL.md)
./Makepkgs —verbose
groupadd -r pcp
useradd -c "Performance Co-Pilot" -g pcp -d /var/lib/pcp -M -r -s /usr/sbin/nologin pcp
./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --sysconfdir=/etc \
         --localstatedir=/var —with-rcdir=/etc/init.d
make
make install

# Either start or restart services.
service pmcd restart
service pmie restart
service pmlogger restart
service pmmgr restart
service pmproxy restart
service pmwebd restart