Installation of PRTG Traffic Grapher on Ubuntu Linux
January 8th, 2008You do not need a Windows based computer (and a Windows license) to use most of PRTG’s features. You can also run PRTG Traffic Grapher 6.x on Linux. Using the “Wine Library” (which emulates Windows system calls) you can run PRTG like most other Windows apps on Linux systems. Of course some hardware/driver-based features like Packet Sniffing do not work.
For this tutorial the following steps will
- create a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation 6,
- install Ubuntu 7.10 onto the virtual machine,
- install Wine 0.9.52 onto Ubuntu and
- install PRTG 6.x onto Ubuntu/Wine
