How to Install trixboxGraph on trixbox under Centos 5

Under earlier version of trixbox < 2.6.0 (running under Centos4.?) you can install trixboxGraph using ‘yum install’. However, trixboxGraph is not available in the trixbox 2.6.0 / Centos 5 repositories so you have some work to do. This worked for me YMMV.

Download the trixboxGraph rpm package to a temporary directory on your trixbox server. Further details about the package if required.

 cd /tmp
 wget http://yum.trixbox.org/centos/4/RPMS/trixboxGraph-0.1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Try a test install to see the dependancy errors

 rpm --test -Uvh  trixboxGraph-0.1.0-1.noarch.rpm

This will throw up errors such as:

 error: Failed dependencies:
        graphviz-gd >= 2.12 is needed by trixboxGraph-0.1.0-1.noarch
        ghostscript >= 8.15.1 is needed by trixboxGraph-0.1.0-1.noarch

To solve the second requirement first

  yum install ghostscript

This will install ghostscript and 9 other packages that it requires. During this you may need to answer Yes [y] to a request to import a GPG key.

You can download the rpms for graphviz-gd for Centos5 from this site.

There you can get graphviz and graphviz-gd from a Centos5 repo.

wget http://www.andreas-mueller.com/mrepo/centos5-i386/RPMS.epel/graphviz-gd-2.12-8.el5.i386.rpm
wget http://www.andreas-mueller.com/mrepo/centos5-i386/RPMS.epel/graphviz-2.12-8.el5.i386.rpm

If you run an rpm test on graphviz you may / will get the following errors:

 error: Failed dependencies:
        libXaw.so.7 is needed by graphviz-2.12-8.el5.i386
        libXmu.so.6 is needed by graphviz-2.12-8.el5.i386

These can be fixed with a

 yum install libXaw libXmu

Then install the graphviz packages

 rpm  -Uvh graphviz-2.12-8.el5.i386.rpm
 rpm  -Uvh graphviz-gd-2.12-8.el5.i386.rpm

Now having sorted out all the dependancies (hopefully) you can install trixboxGraph

  rpm  -Uvh trixboxGraph-0.1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Then you can point you browser at

 http://your-trixbox-ip/trixboxGraph 

and plot your dialplan graphically.

If this does not work go back and check the various stages of the install process.

trixboxGraph and trixbox 2.6

It appears that the trixboxGraph code needs updating for queues to be recognised and handled correctly. If you include queues in the output you may or will get the error:

 select distinct id from queues => Table 'asterisk.queues' doesn't exist

Apart from this other features appear to work.

Hack to get queues to be displayed

A couple of edits to the file /var/www/html/trixboxGraph/index.php seem to overcome the queue error and get queues displayed. The details are here in my post on the trixboxGraph thread on the trixbox forum

Links

More info on graphviz on the Graphviz website