On 12/07/2010 23:08, Peter DeVries wrote: > I decided to try to do the source install of the latest version of Virtuoso > Open Source on Ubuntu Lucid. > > * This is different than installing *virtuoso-opensource* via the package > manager. > > Following the default configuration using default path settings, I am > getting virtuoso.ini in the following location > > /usr/local/virtuoso-opensource/var/lib/virtuoso/db/virtuoso.ini > > It is as if it is appending the path */var/lib/virtuoso/db/* to the assumed > install location of */usr/local/virtuoso-opensource/* > * > * > I am wondering if this is a bug in the installer script?
It's normal behaviour. Virtuoso already caters for alternative layouts for various distributions using ./configure --with-layout. Please see <http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VOSMake#Installation>. There's nothing to stop you using any directory you like to store a database instance: it just takes a virtuoso.ini file somewhere, start the virtuoso-t daemon against it and off you go. > Should I be using the following in my installation procedure? > > * > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/virtuoso-opensource If you wish. It would be wise to create symlinks such as cd /usr/local/bin ln -s ../virtuoso-opensource/bin/{isql,virtuoso-t} . so the useful executables would be somewhere in your PATH. > It is also not clear to me if the Ubuntu lucid package will be updated to > the new version or if it will stay at the previous version? It's up to Ubuntu to decide when they'll upgrade the package. > P.S. For the packaged version this is all that I needed to do to get > virtuoso installed. > > sudo apt-get install virtuoso-opensource > sudo apt-get install virtuoso-vad-doc > sudo apt-get install virtuoso-vad-isparql > sudo apt-get install virtuoso-vad-rdfmappers > > Then edit this file /etc/default/*virtuoso-opensource-6.0* > > so it reads this at the end > > # Set to 'yes' to start virtuoso, set to 'no' otherwise > RUN=yes Thanks for the tip. ~Tim -- Tim Haynes Product Development Consultant OpenLink Software <http://www.openlinksw.com/> <http://twitter.com/openlink>
