Installing Cacti on Ubuntu 8.04

For some reason that I can't claim to understand, mysql-server is a recommended dependency for the current cacti package (0.8.7b), not installing it first causes the kind of failures you can clearly project. So, do this first.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Then, onto the installation...
sudo apt-get install cacti

Where, oh where is the crontab entry for this thing; grep told me its in the cacti file in /etc/cron.d