What just happened?

You just set up a basic development environment for compiling Spine, compiled it, and then installed it. You also configured Spine to use the correct database information.

Compiling Spine on other Linux distributions: 

When compiling Spine on other Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, you will have to go through some additional steps. For more information, refer to http://docs.cacti.net/manual:100:1_installation.1_install_unix.6_install_and_configure_spine.