所有包都在code.google.com或者sourceforge之类的地方寻找尽可能新的版本，名称以及md5如下：
cgilib-0.7.tar.gz 2c7053f58dfb06f7a80a112797ed7e86
expat-2.0.1.tar.gz ee8b492592568805593f81f8cdf2a04c
fontconfig-2.8.0.tar.gz77e15a92006ddc2adbb06f840d591c0e
freetype-2.4.8.tar.gz 5d82aaa9a4abc0ebbd592783208d9c76
gd-2.0.33.tar.gz be0a6d326cd8567e736fbc75df0a5c45
jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz a2c10c04f396a9ce72894beb18b4e1f9
libart_lgpl-2.3.21.tar.gz 722471ec8ae084af4293126d06b60880
libpng-1.5.7.tar.gz944b56a84b65d94054cc73d7ff965de8
libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz 8127a65e8c3b08856093099b52599c86
rrdtool-1.4.5.tar.gz 4d116dba9a0888d8aaac179e35d3980a
zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz c735eab2d659a96e5a594c9e8541ad63
将以上的包放在同一个目录内，比如 /root/rrdtool/ 中
###START###
#将以下内容保存为 install_rrdtool.sh
#!/bin/sh
export CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC"
tar zxvf zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.5
CFLAGS="-O3 -fPIC" ./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
cd ..
echo
read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...'
echo
tar zxvf expat-2.0.1.tar.gz
cd expat-2.0.1
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
echo
read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...'
echo
tar zxvf cgilib-0.7.tar.gz
cd cgilib-0.7
aclocal
autoconf
libtoolize --force
automake --add-missing --foreign
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
echo
read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...'
echo
tar zxvf libpng-1.5.7.tar.gz
cd libpng-1.5.7
mv scripts/makefile.linux ./makefile
make
make install
cd ..
echo
read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...'
echo
tar zxvf freetype-2.4.8.tar.gz
cd freetype-2.4.8
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetype
make
make install
cd ..
echo
read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...'
echo
tar zxvf fontconfig-2.8.0.tar.gz
cd fontconfig-2.8.0
./configure --with-freetype-config=/usr/local/freetype/bin/freetype-config
make
make install
cd ..
echo
read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...'
echo
tar zxvf libart_lgpl-2.3.21.tar.gz
cd libart_lgpl-2.3.21
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
echo
read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...'
echo
tar zxvf libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz
cd libxml2-2.7.8
./configure --with-zlib=/usr
make
make install
cd ..
echo
read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...'
echo
tar zxvf jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz
cd jpeg-8c/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libjpeg --enable-shared --enable-static
make
make install
cd ..
echo
read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...'
echo
tar zxvf gd-2.0.33.tar.gz
cd gd-2.0.33
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libgd --with-png --with-freetype=/usr/local/freetype --with-jpeg=/usr/local/libjpeg --with-xpm --enable-m4_pattern_allow
make
make install
cd ..
echo
read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...'
echo
tar zxvf rrdtool-1.4.5.tar.gz
cd rrdtool-1.4.5
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rrdtool --disable-python --disable-tcl
make
make install
#验证
/usr/local/rrdtool/bin/rrdtool --help
###END###
然后执行该脚本即可
chmod u+x install_rrdtool.sh;
./install_rrdtool.sh > test.log;
可能会有很多warning，但只要没有严重错误，就可以一直回车，直至脚本运行完成。
如果觉得烦的话，可以删掉 read -n 1 -p 'Press any key to continue...' 的部分，那样脚本就直接能运行完了。
运行完成后，rrdtool即安装完毕，可以手动进行下测试。