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configure, Makefile: Add --libdir option to ./configure, allowing you to override the $PREFIX/lib/ default. Fixes #470.
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1 (This file was created from
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2 http://prosody.im/doc/installing_from_source on 2013-03-31)
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4 ====== Installing from source ======
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5 ==== Dependencies ====
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6 There are a couple of libraries which Prosody needs installed before
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7 you can build it. These are:
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9 * lua5.1: The Lua 5.1 interpreter
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10 * liblua5.1: Lua 5.1 library
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11 * libssl 0.9.8: OpenSSL
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12 * libidn11: GNU libidn library, version 1.1
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14 These can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu with the packages: lua5.1
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15 liblua5.1-dev libidn11-dev libssl-dev
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17 On Mandriva try: urpmi lua liblua-devel libidn-devel libopenssl-devel
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19 On other systems... good luck, but please let me know of the best way
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20 of getting the dependencies for your system and I can add it here.
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22 ==== configure ====
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23 The first step of building is to run the configure script. This
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27 All options to configure can be seen by running ./configure --help.
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28 Sometimes you won't need to pass any parameters to configure, but on
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29 most systems you shall.
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31 To make this a little easier, there are a few presets which configure
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32 accepts. You can load a preset using:
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39 ==== make ====
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40 Once you have run configure successfully, then you can simply run:
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48 have them installed, and in the standard library paths for your
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49 system.
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51 For more help, just ask ;-)
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53 ==== install ====
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54 At this stage you should be able to run Prosody simply with:
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56 ./prosody
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58 There is no problem with this, it is actually the easiest way to do
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60 can keep multiple versions around in their own directories without
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63 Should you wish to install it system-wide however, simply run:
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65 sudo make install
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67 ...it will install into /usr/local/ by default. To change this you
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69 edit config.unix directly. If the new path doesn't require root
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70 permission to write to, you also won't need (or want) to use 'sudo'
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73 Have fun, and see you on Jabber!