What is this repo about?

While reading the book "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks" 1st ed., I encountered difficulties in installing Riak (3th chapter). When trying to build a repository, many dependencies were not automatically installed. So that I wouldn't forget what to do and how to do it, I decided to leave a brief Riak installation manual somewhere. The instruction is relevant for the "develop" branch.

Instruction

1. Prep Linux

Doing the routine steps when installing a new Linux installation

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

2. Install dependent packages

Since we will be installing Riak from the Git repository, we will need to install Git

sudo apt-get install git

Also we need make,

sudo apt-get install make

And of course, since riak is written in erlang, we'll need erlang as well

sudo apt-get install erlang

And others...

sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev
sudo apt-get install libpam0g-dev

3. Install Riak

Clone Riak repo.

git clone https://github.com/basho/riak.git

Choose branch, I use 'develop' (because riak-3.2.0, doesn't work, idk why, and riak-3.0.9 doesn't work with erlang 24). In my case, the commit that was relevant in the “develop” branch worked.

b8eb83a1348db9ebb3a85963689cf9b3f9594ac4

And build project with "devrel" to make multiple databases for experimentals.

make devclean
make devrel

In new versions of Riak, 8 databases are created instead of 3.

4. Riak setup

After assembly, most often the ports do not intersect. If you want to interact with the database from the local network (I run Riak in an LXS container on Proxmox, but I want to interact with them through another computer), change in file

cd ~/riak/dev/dev1/riak/etc
nano riak.conf

the line

listener.http.internal = 0.0.0.0:[PORT]
listener.protobuf.internal = 0.0.0.0:[PORT]

FAQ

Sometimes I can't fetch repo with make all, for example 'leveled'

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/martinsumner/leveled
cd leveled
git checkout a033e280e67931582cc9625993268db126abb4ff
cp -R ~/leveled/ ~/riak/_build/default/lib

Where I checkouted to version which ref in fetch

Fetching leveled (from {git,"https://github.com/martinsumner/leveled",
                   {ref,"a033e280e67931582cc9625993268db126abb4ff"}})