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current free version 3.42 (it is platform independent).
For customers under support there is distributed a full version with additional benefits.

Latest development builds with new features and latest fixes you can find on the development page.

LPAR2RRD generally requires any web sever, RRDTool with Perl support, Perl itself and TimeDate Perl module. There is not restriction for versions of those supporting tools.
Table bellow shows all necessary packages together with their dependency packages. You can install even newer packages, it is up to you.

AIX prerequisite packages

Package	LPAR2RRD site download	Notes
Perl	perl-5.8.2-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm	Perl is usually distributed in AIX OS
TimeDate	TimeDate-1.16.tar.gz	Perl module
XML:Simple	NA	Perl module, AIX usually contains that check more on install page
Apache	apache-1.3.31-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
RRDTool	rrdtool-1.2.13-1.perl58.aix5.2.ppc.rpm	dependency packages in the table are valid for v1.2 It also contains RRDTool Perl package
Expact	expat-1.95.7-4.aix5.1.ppc.rpm	RRDTool dependency
Freetype2	freetype2-2.1.7-5.aix5.1.ppc.rpm	RRDTool dependency
Libart_lgpl	libart_lgpl-2.3.17-4.aix5.1.ppc.rpm	RRDTool dependency
Libpng	libpng-1.2.8-6.aix5.2.ppc.rpm	RRDTool dependency
Zlib	zlib-1.2.3-4.aix5.2.ppc.rpm	RRDTool dependency

Linux

LPAR2RRD version 3.20 is part of openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions. Here you will find list of SUSE distributions which include LPAR2RRD.
However generaly we do recomend manuall install even for SuSE platform via the package available here.
Install procedure for Linux is same as for AIX
Do not forget to install RRDTool for Perl package.

Solaris

Hosting of LPAR2RRD on Solaris is also possible and some LPAR2RRD users use that platform. Tested Solaris 9, generally it should work with any version.

Sourceforge download statistics

Nice Sourceforge stats say there were over 10000 LPAR2RRD downloads in last 4 years!
There were 4500 downloads in 2012