Re: GOT IT!!! Build to Ubuntu (Debian) system

Hi,

I'm very happy, because I finally could see the output of the "viewstat"
command of refdba. Thank you very much. My refdb installation on ubuntu
seems to work perfectly. I only had to create the symbolic links to
libdbi files. 

Regards,

Ignasi.

> Got it, and in less that 12 hours.
> 
> Most of the trouble I've been having comes from not understanding
> details of README files, but since this is probably a common problem, I
> thought I'd write out what worked. Again in  Wiki format.
> 
> ==Installing refdb from a clean install of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS==
> 
> * Ensure that the community and multiverse repositories are enabled.
> ** Open sources.list with your favorite editor
>  sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
> ** Remove the comment hashes from the relevant repositories
> ** Reload
>  sudo apt-get update
> 
> * Load the necessary binaries (place all one one line)
> 
>  sudo apt-get install make mysql-client mysql-server
libmysqlclient15-dev zlib1g-dev libbtparse0 libbtparse-dev
libreadline5-dev install gcc libexpat1-dev
> 
> * Add a password to mysql
> 
>  mysqladmin -u root password '<your favourite password here>'
> 
> * Get source files for libdbi0 =>8.0. In the download directory do the
> following (this assumes you are downloading from the University of
> Minnesota Mirror; you can also choose a different mirror if there is a
> more convenient one):
> 
>  wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libdbi/libdbi-0.8.1.tar.gz
>  tar zxvf libdbi-0.8.1.tar.gz
>  cd libdbi-0.8.1/
>  ./configure
>  make
>  sudo make install
>  cd ..
> 
> * Get source files for libdbi drivers and install:
> 
>  wget
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libdbi-drivers/libdbi-drivers-0.81a.tar.gz
>  tar zxvf libdbi-drivers-0.8.1a.tar.gz
>  cd libdbi-drivers-0.8.1/
>  ./configure --with-mysql
>  make
>  sudo make install
>  cd ..
> 
> * Symlink the libdbi libraries (installed in /usr/local/lib) to /usr/lib
> (where refdb will look for them):
> 
>   ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdbi.a /usr/lib/libdbi.a
>   ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdbi.la /usr/lib/libdbi.la
>   ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdbi.so /usr/lib/libdbi.so
>   ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdbi.so.0 /usr/lib/libdbi.so.0
>   ln -s /usr/local/lib/libdbi.so.0.0.5 /usr/lib/libdbi.so.0.0.5
> 
> * Get install refdb (note: during make you will get a recurring invalid
> pointer error. This is not important):
> 
>  wget http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-latest.tar.gz
>  tar zxvf refdb-latest.tar.gz
>  cd refdb-0.9.7-pre7/
>  ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-refdb-url=http://localhost/refdb
>  make
>  sudo make install
>  cd ..
> 
> * Run the installation script (answer all questions)
>  cd /usr/local/bin/
>  sudo refdb-init.sh
> 
> * test installation (see section 4.9. Testing your installation)
> 
> -- 
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