[Refdb-users] GOT IT!!! Build to Ubuntu (Debian) system

[Daniel O'D. <dan...@ul...>]

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-0.8.1a.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)

-- 
Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Director, Digital Medievalist Project
<http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/>
Department of English
University of Lethbridge
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