Installing

Installation depends on which format you choose to download. If you've got a package such as RPM or DEB, check your package manager documentation for how to install new packages.

If you downloaded the source code (in a tarball), you must compile the software. For doing so, once you have unpacked the source tree, you must:
          ./configure
          make
          make install
        

This will generate the makefiles for your specific platform, compile all the source tree, and install the binaries and documentation in your system.

If you don't find a file named configure, there should be one called autogen.sh. In this case, run autogen.sh, which will create and run the generated configure file.

You can specify several arguments to configure (or autogen.sh). The most significant are (you can check all the available arguments by running configure --help):

Providers are not installed by default, so you must specifically add those arguments when running configure.

If you find any problem during the configuration, compilation or installation process, do not hesitate in contacting the GNOME-DB mailing list (gnome-db-list@gnome.org, first send an email to gnome-db-list-request@gnome.org with the subject SUBSCRIBE if you are not already subscribed).