Thank you for the answer. I will try it out. I go for the manual compilation because going for the Ubuntu 9.10 package brought up a complaint that a prerequisite is missing.
Maybe in the end I may contribute some documentation how to do the installation in Ubuntu 9.10. On 4/21/10, Norbert Sendetzky <norb...@linuxnetworks.de> wrote: > On Tue April 20 2010 22:28:46 Hannes Hirzel wrote: >> I want to install OpenDBX on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) >> >> I am following the installation instructions on >> http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX/Setup/Manual_builds >> >> ./configure >> >> gives as result >> >> checking for doxygen... no >> Warning: docbook man page converter not found - skip generating man >> pages Warning: doxygen not found - skip generating man pages >> checking readline/readline.h usability... no >> checking readline/readline.h presence... no >> checking for readline/readline.h... no >> configure: error: libreadline header (readline.h) not found > > This means that you need to install the libreadlineX-dev package. > > The easier way for Linux/Ubuntu is to build the .deb/.rpm packages > (http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX/Setup/Unix- > like/Packages_from_source). The build scripts tell you at the beginning what > packages are missing. > >> In Ubuntu 9.10 there is no directory >> >> /usr/include/mysql >> >> Where do I get these header files from? Maybe there are more header >> files missing? > > Did you installed the libmysqlclientXX-dev package? This includes the MySQL > header file and the directory. > > By the way, http://linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX/Download also > contains a link to the Ubuntu 9.10 binary .deb packages if you don't want to > compile the OpenDBX yourself. > > > Norbert > -- > OpenPGP public key > http://www.linuxnetworks.de/norbert.pubkey.asc > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ libopendbx-devel mailing list libopendbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libopendbx-devel http://www.linuxnetworks.de/doc/index.php/OpenDBX