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It took a good few attempts to get 4-store installed on my Debian Lenny box, even after reading a very useful guide by Richard Reynolds.

For anyone following that guide, here are the modifications I had to make:

Firstly, I had to install Raptor first (it complains that there’s no Rasqual otherwise). That was fairly straight forward, I was able to follow Richard Reynolds guide:


wget http://download.librdf.org/source/raptor2-2.0.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf raptor2-2.0.2.tar.gz
cd raptor2-2.0.2
./configure
make
sudo make install


Then I was able to build Rasqual:


wget http://download.librdf.org/source/rasqal-0.9.25.tar.gz
tar -xjvf rasqal-0.9.25.tar.gz
cd rasqal-0.9.25
./configure
make
sudo make install


When it came to building 4store, I couldn’t get the sources from github. This line:

git clone https://github.com/garlik/4store.git

Got me:


Initialized empty Git repository in /home/blah/4store-v1.1.4/4store/.git/
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.


Which wasn’t very useful, and created an empty 4store directory that I had to delete. A bit of googling indicated that the maintainers need to issue a few commands to push the default branch to the server. I couldn’t do anything about that, so I tried other methods of getting hold of the sources.

Then I tried several times to download auto-zipped up sources from github, unzipped them, and struggled with building the Makefile using the included automake.sh script, which I never got to work.

So finally I downloaded the sources from the 4store website here, unzipped them, found a nice Makefile and followed the INSTALL instructions from there.

It was a bit of a mission getting 4store to compile, I had to apt-get install:

• libglib2.0-dev (Make complained about not having glibc-2.0)
• libxml++-dev
• libreadline-dev

But I finally got it configured, made and installed. Next: configuration!