lbry-rocksdb/docs/installation.rst

Installing
==========
.. highlight:: bash


With distro package and pypi
****************************

This requires librocksdb-dev>=5.0

.. code-block:: bash

    apt-get install python-virtualenv python-dev librocksdb-dev
    virtualenv venv
    source venv/bin/activate
    pip install python-rocksdb

From source
***********

Building rocksdb
----------------

Briefly describes how to build rocksdb under an ordinary debian/ubuntu.
For more details consider https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/INSTALL.md

.. code-block:: bash

    apt-get install build-essential libsnappy-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libgflags-dev
    git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
    cd rocksdb
    mkdir build && cd build
    cmake ..
    make

Systemwide rocksdb
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The following command installs the shared library in ``/usr/lib/`` and the
header files in ``/usr/include/rocksdb/``::

    make install-shared INSTALL_PATH=/usr

To uninstall use::

    make uninstall INSTALL_PATH=/usr

Local rocksdb
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you don't like the system wide installation, or you don't have the
permissions, it is possible to set the following environment variables.
These varialbes are picked up by the compiler, linker and loader

.. code-block:: bash

    export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=${CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH}:`pwd`/../include
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:`pwd`
    export LIBRARY_PATH=${LIBRARY_PATH}:`pwd`

Building python-rocksdb
-----------------------

.. code-block:: bash

    apt-get install python-virtualenv python-dev
    virtualenv venv
    source venv/bin/activate
    pip install git+git://github.com/twmht/python-rocksdb.git#egg=python-rocksdb