[dbint] Building the software

Dear Andy,

There is no package of whois-server provided, only the source tarball. We also don't have a list of packaged 
prerequisites, as it depends a lot on how you plan to deploy whois-server in your environment. There are also 
differences between different versions of even the same linux distribution. We also have a number of perl module 
dependencies. As a rough list, consider the following:

libtool openssl-devel patch file gcc g++ gdb glib2-devel sun-java6-jdk mysql-devel flex bison gettext mlocate 
mysql-server mailx

And the following perl modules:

Test::More ExtUtils::Embed IO::Socket::INET6 Net::IP Net::Telnet

Your best bet is to just start trying to compile/run, and look for error messages. Missing dependencies in whois-server 
fail hard most of the time, and always produce an error message.

Kind regards,
Agoston Horvath
Database Group
RIPE NCC

On 2011-09-28 7:13 PM, Andy Davidson wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I've read the install procedures for the ripe whois database, and see that you mention you develop on Debian Linux.
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> Can the pre-requisites be installed with packages, and do you have a list of packages I can paste into "dpkg --set-selections" to satisfy the pre-requisites ?
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> I'll assume for now there is no package for the installed whois server.. :-)
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> Andy
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