Install

The graph below shows an (incomplete) list of available packages for Elektra.

For the following Linux distributions and package managers 0.8 packages are available:

• Arch Linux
• Openwrt
• OpenSuse
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Gentoo
• Linux Mint
• LinuxBrew

For OpenSUSE, CentOS, Fedora, RHEL and SLE Kai-Uwe Behrmann kindly provides packages for download.

To use the Ubuntu-Bionic packages, the following steps need to be made:

1. Run sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys D919CE8B27A64C16656FCA9FF1532673651F9C6C to obtain the key.
2. Add deb https://ubuntu-bionic-repo.libelektra.org/ bionic main into /etc/apt/sources.list
3. sudo apt-get update

To use the debian repository of the latest builds from master put following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list:

For Stretch:

deb     [trusted=yes] https://debian-buster-repo.libelektra.org/ buster main
deb-src [trusted=yes] https://debian-buster-repo.libelektra.org/ buster main

Which can also be done using:

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
echo "deb     [trusted=yes] https://debian-buster-repo.libelektra.org/ buster main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elektra.list

Or alternatively, you can use (if you do not mind many dependences just to add one line to a config file):

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common apt-transport-https
sudo add-apt-repository "deb     [trusted=yes] https://debian-buster-repo.libelektra.org/ buster main"

For Jessie (not updated anymore, contains 0.8.24 packages which were created shortly before 0.8.25 release)

deb     [trusted=yes] https://debian-stable.libelektra.org/elektra-stable/ jessie main
deb-src [trusted=yes] https://debian-stable.libelektra.org/elektra-stable/ jessie main

To get all packaged plugins, bindings and tools install:

apt-get install libelektra4-all

For a small installation with command-line tools available use:

apt-get install elektra-bin

If you want to rebuild Elektra from Debian unstable or our repositories, add a deb-src entry to /etc/apt/sources.list and then run:

apt-get source -b elektra

To build Debian Packages from the source you might want to use:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -sa

(You need to be in the Debian branch, see GIT)

You can install Elektra using Homebrew via the shell command:

brew install elektra

. We also provide a tap containing a more elaborate formula here.

Please refer to the section OS Independent below.

First follow the steps in COMPILE.

After you completed building Elektra on your own, there are multiple options how to install it. For example, with make or cPack tools.

sudo make install
sudo ldconfig  # See troubleshooting below

To uninstall Elektra use (will not be very clean, e.g. it will not remove directories and *.pyc files):

sudo make uninstall
sudo ldconfig

or in the build directory (will not honor DESTDIR!):

xargs rm < install_manifest.txt

First follow the steps in COMPILE.

Then use:

cpack

which should create a package for distributions where a Generator is implemented. See this cmake file for available Generators and send a merge request for your system.

If you encounter the problem that the library can not be found (output like this)

kdb: error while loading shared libraries:
     libelektra-core.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

or:

kdb: error while loading shared libraries:
     libelektratools.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

you need to place a configuration file at /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ (e.g. /etc/ld.so.conf.d/elektra.conf). Note that under Alpine Linux this file is called /etc/ld-musl-x86_64.path or similar, depending on your architecture.

Add the path where the library has been installed (on Alpine Linux this had to be usr/lib/elektra for it to work)

/usr/lib/local/

and run ldconfig as root.

For some of the plugins and tools that ship with Elektra, additional installation manuals have been written. You can find them in the tutorial overview.

• COMPILE.
• TESTING.