Thanks to Andreas, Billy, and Larry for your replies which have been 
very helpful. So far I have a bare bones install working and am 
exploring configuration now.
cheers,
Jack

fowler wrote:
> Hello All,
>  Does anyone have any experience with installing ganglia, the cluster 
> monitor tool? I'm try to do so on an SLF 4.5 x86_64 machine. When I run 
> the ./configure it fails with:
> -----
> Checking for python
> checking for python... /usr/local/bin/python
> checking Python version... can't exec python/Linux-2-4/v2_1/bin/python:: 
> No such file or directory
> can't exec python/Linux-2-4/v2_1/bin/python:: No such file or directory
> 
> can't exec python/Linux-2-4/v2_1/bin/python:: No such file or directory
> checking Python support... no
> 
> Checking for apr
> checking for apr-1-config... no
> configure: error: apr-1-config binary not found in path
> ------
>  I'm not sure where to go from here. Any help is appreciated.
> thanks,
> Jack