Installing redland-1.0.7 from source on Ubuntu 7.10

The Ubuntu packages for the Redland RDF libraries seem to have an issue, at least for the Ruby bindings (see Ruby objects to cyclic dependency about the “cyclic include detected” issue), so I installed it from source.

<p>In case I need to do this again (or someone else does), here are the steps I took for installing Redland on Ubuntu 7.10:</p>

1. Get the GNU MP Bignum library: sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev

2. Make or go to a scratch directory cd ~ mkdir redland cd redland

3. Get redland 1.0.7 and unpack wget http://download.librdf .org/source/redland-1.0.7.tar.gz tar xvfz redland-1.0.7.tar.gz cd redland-1.0.7

4. Build raptor first cd raptor ./configure && make && make check && sudo make install cd ..

5. Then build rasqal

cd rasqal ./configure && make && make check && sudo make install cd ..

1. Build redland # We are back in the main redland-1.0.7 directory ./configure && make && make check && sudo make install

2. Get and build redland-bindings cd .. wget http://download.librdf.org/source/redland-bindings-1.0.7.1.tar.gz tar xvfz redland-bindings-1.0.7.1.tar.gz cd redland-bindings-1.0.7.1 ./configure && make && make check && sudo make install

3. Build the language-specific bindings you would like cd ruby make && make check && sudo make install cd ..