Installing ********** .. highlight:: bash Building rocksdb ---------------- Briefly describes how to build rocksdb under a ordinary debian/ubuntu. For more details consider https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/master/INSTALL.md:: $ apt-get install build-essential $ apt-get install libsnappy-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libgflags-dev $ git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git $ git checkout 2.8.fb $ cd rocksdb $ make shared_lib If you do not want to call ``make install`` export the following enviroment variables:: $ export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=${CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH}:`pwd`/include $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:`pwd` $ export LIBRARY_PATH=${LIBRARY_PATH}:`pwd` Building pyrocksdb ------------------ .. code-block:: bash $ apt-get install python-virtualenv python-dev $ virtualenv pyrocks_test $ cd pyrocks_test $ . bin/active $ pip install "Cython>=0.20" $ pip install git+git://github.com/stephan-hof/pyrocksdb.git