---
title: zabbix config errors
subtitle: errors under ubuntu
date: 2009-12-08
keywords: [it, linux, ubuntu, zabbix]
---

`./configure --enable-server --enable-agent --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl`

here's some errors i had while compiling [zabbix] on [ubuntu] 9.10
and how to fix them

mysql
-----

|       |                                             |
| ----- | ------------------------------------------- |
| flag  | `--with-mysql`                              |
| error | `configure: error: MySQL library not found` |  
| fix   | `sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev`   |

jabber
------

|       |                                                                      |
| ----- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| flag  | `--with-jabber`                                                      |
| error | `checking for IKSEMEL... configure: error: Jabber library not found` |
| fix   | `sudo apt-get install libiksemel-dev`                                |

libcurl
-------

|       |                                             |
| ----- | ------------------------------------------- |
| flag  | `--with-libcurl`                            |
| error | `configure: error: Curl library not found`  |
| fix   | `sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev` |

snmp
----

|       |                                             |
| ----- | ------------------------------------------- |
| flag  | `--with-net-snmp`  
| error | `configure: error: Not found NET-SNMP library`  
| fix   | `sudo apt-get install libsnmp-dev`

openipmi
--------

|       |                                                                          |
| ----- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| flag  | `--with-openipmi`                                                        |
| error | `configure: error: Invalid OPENIPMI directory - unable to find ipmiif.h` |
| fix   | `sudo apt-get install libopenipmi-dev` [^1]                              |

[^1]: but I couldn't get that last one to work

[zabbix]: http://www.zabbix.com/
[ubuntu]: http://www.ubuntu.com/