====== Building in Debian ======

Compiling WDB should be fairly simple, if you have the appropriate libraries and systems installed. The following procedure is based on Ubuntu Lucid; keep in mind that the code changes faster than this wiki page.

Install the following debian packages on Precise Pangolin the packages would be:
                 
  apt-get install g++ make git-core libreadline-dev automake libtool autoconf-archive \
             postgresql-9.1 \ 
             postgresql-server-dev-9.1 postgresql-9.1-postgis libpqxx3-dev libboost-dev \ 
             libboost-date-time-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev \
             libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev liblog4cpp5-dev libcppunit-dev \ 
             libgrib-api-dev libproj-dev libglib2.0-dev libgeos-dev xmlto \
             automake libtool autoconf-archive libreadline-dev               

Packages from above in a copy-paste friendly format:
<code>
sudo apt-get install g++ make git-core libreadline-dev automake libtool autoconf-archive postgresql-9.1 postgresql-server-dev-9.1 postgresql-9.1-postgis libpqxx3-dev libboost-dev libboost-date-time-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev liblog4cpp5-dev libcppunit-dev libgrib-api-dev libproj-dev libglib2.0-dev libgeos-dev xmlto automake libtool autoconf-archive libreadline-dev
</code>
                  
To build debian packages, you will additionally require:

  apt-get install build-essential cdbs debhelper devscripts dpkg-dev po-debconf

To install wdb from the debian package, the following packages are additionally required:

  apt-get install proj postgresql-client

You can then download the latest WDB source from:

  git clone git@github.com:wdb/wdb.git wdb

To get a read-only version of the github repository it is sufficient to have git installed and use the read-only address:
<code>
apt-get install git
git clone git://github.com/wdb/wdb.git
</code>

If you haven't used GitHub before, see [[http://help.github.com/linux-set-up-git/|Help.GitHub]] for details on how to connect your system.

Enter the wdb directory, wdb and run:

  ./autogen.sh

Run configure:

  ./configure

Add --prefix=target-dir to install the software under another directory (recommended if you are not root, or doing this for the first time. This will allow you to easily uninstall/delete the WDB system later).

Run make:

  make

This should build the WDB code, assuming everything above has gone to plan. The same procedure can be followed for each of the other WDB packages.

The wdb-libwdbload package (used for loading programs) additionally requires

  libboost-system-dev libboost-test-dev

The wdb-gribload package (used for loading programs) additionally requires

  bc
  
The wdb-locationforecastload application requires

  cmake libxml++2.6-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev help2man libgtest-dev
  
The wdb-netcdfload application requires

  libfimex-dev libxml2-dev help2man

wdb2ts also requires

  libboost-iostreams-dev apache2-threaded-dev
  
Several projects require

  libboost-test-dev
  
Note that due to bugs within the m4 macros used, libboost-test may often not be flagged correctly as the source of the configure error.