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I tried building flockdb from the sources from git, but couldn't do it. Am using Mac OSX 10.6 and getting lot of issues in thrift/boost installations. Has anyone successfully build it and installed it. Appreciate any pointer to information on doing this (except the one from flockdb git site).

Also, I don't know about Scala, but is there any readily available flockdb installation file to install it on Mac/Linux/Windows?

Thanks in advance.

greeness
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I just successfully installed flockdb on an amazon/ec2 machine under Ubuntu 12.04.

Install Java 1.6

  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk

Install Thrift (http://code.google.com/p/thrudb/wiki/UbuntuInstallGuide)

  • install build tools and thrift dependencies:
  • sudo apt-get -y install subversion g++ make flex bison python-dev libboost-dev libevent-dev automake pkg-config libtool make
  • download a copy of thrift 0.5.0 from: http://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/thrift/0.5.0-incubating/
  • wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/thrift/0.5.0-incubating/thrift-0.5.0.tar.gz
  • tar zxvf thrift-0.5.0.tar.gz; cd thrift-0.5.0
  • ./configure
  • make
  • sudo make install
  • Install ruby client
  • cd lib/rb/
  • sudo ruby setup.rb config
  • sudo ruby setup.rb install

Install SBT

ref steps

The sbt package is available from the Typesafe Debian Repository.

  • Install the deb to add the typesafe debian repository to your list of approved sources.
  • wget http://apt.typesafe.com/repo-deb-build-0002.deb
  • sudo dpkg -i repo-deb-build-0002.deb
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install sbt
  • download sbt launcher:
  • wget http://simple-build-tool.googlecode.com/files/sbt-launch-0.7.4.jar
  • mv sbt-launch-0.7.4.jar ~/bin/sbt-launch.jar
  • create ~/bin/sbt file and make it excutable:
  • java -Xmx512M -jardirname $0/sbt-launch.jar "$@"
  • chmod u+x ~/bin/sbt
  • modify ~/.bashrc: export PATH=${PATH}:$HOME/bin
  • source ~/.bashrc

Get FlockDB

ref steps
  • git clone https://github.com/twitter/flockdb.git
  • cd flockdb
  • sbt update. You will see the outputs like below.
......
[info] == update ==
[success] Successful.
[info] 
[info] Total time: 213 s, completed Jan 7, 2013 11:02:48 PM
[info] 
[info] Total session time: 267 s, completed Jan 7, 2013 11:02:48 PM
[success] Build completed successfully.
  • build package-dist without test first: NO_TESTS=1 sbt package-dist. You will see the outputs like below.
......
[info] == package-dist ==
[info] Packaging ./dist/flockdb-3e351842.zip ...
[info] Packaging complete.
[info] == package-dist ==
[success] Successful.
[info] 
[info] Total time: 7 s, completed Jan 7, 2013 11:09:51 PM
[info] 
[info] Total session time: 8 s, completed Jan 7, 2013 11:09:51 PM
[success] Build completed successfully.

Install mysql-server

  • sudo apt-get install mysql-server, then setting env variables:
  • export DB_USERNAME="root"
  • export DB_PASSWORD="password"

Build FlockDB package-dist

  • if all above succeed, cd flockdb and go ahead to try sbt package-dist. You will see the outputs like below.
[info] Passed: : Total 265, Failed 0, Errors 0, Passed 265, Skipped 0
[info]  
[info] All tests PASSED.
[info] == test-finish ==
[info] 
[info] == test-cleanup ==
[info] == test-cleanup ==
[info] 
[info] == package-dist ==
[info] Packaging ./dist/flockdb-3e351842.zip ...
[info] Packaging complete.
[info] == package-dist ==
[success] Successful.
[info] 
[info] Total time: 137 s, completed Jan 7, 2013 11:47:54 PM
[info] 
[info] Total session time: 138 s, completed Jan 7, 2013 11:47:54 PM
[success] Build completed successfully.

Install gizzmo and start flockdb

Just follow the tutorial in twitter-flockdb: https://github.com/twitter/flockdb/blob/master/doc/demo.markdown

Install python client

>>> import flockdb
>>> client = flockdb.Client("localhost", 7915, {
...     "follows": 1,
...     "blocks": 2,
...     })
>>> client.add(1, "follows", 2)
>>> client.remove(1, "follows", 2)
>>> client.get(1, "follows", None)
()
>>> client.add(1, "follows", 2)
>>> client.get(1, "follows", None)
(2,)
>>> client.get(None, "follows", 2)
(1,)
>>> client.get_all([(1, "follows", 2), (2, "follows", 3)])
[(2,), ()]
greeness
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I ran into some issues too, but they were resolved when I made sure that I was using the exact versions for FlockDB's dependencies:

  • java 1.6
  • sbt 0.7.4
  • thrift 0.5.0
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