Installing

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
$ 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

$ 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