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

For the following Linux distributions and package managers 0.9 packages are available:

We provide repositories for latest releases and latest builds from master (suite postfixed with -unstable) for following Debian-based distributions:

Debian Buster
Ubuntu Focal
Ubuntu Bionic

To use our stable repositories with our latest releases, following steps need to be made:

Run sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys F26BBE02F3C315A19BF1F791A9A25CC1CC83E839 to obtain the key.
Add deb https://debs.libelektra.org/<DISTRIBUTION> <SUITE> main into /etc/apt/sources.list where <DISTRIBUTION> and <SUITE> is the codename of your distributions e.g.focal,bionic,buster, etc.

This can also be done using:

# Example for Ubuntu Focal
apt-get install software-properties-common apt-transport-https
echo "deb https://debs.libelektra.org/focal focal 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):

# Example for Ubuntu Focal
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common apt-transport-https
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://debs.libelektra.org/focal focal main"

If you would like to use the latest builds of master, append -unstable to <SUITE>.

The etc/apt/source.list entry must look like following: deb https://debs.libelektra.org/<DISTRIBUTION> <SUITE>-unstable main

E.g. deb https://debs.libelektra.org/focal focal-unstable main

Run sudo apt-get update.

NOTE: for Ubuntu Bionic the yamlcpp plugin is excluded due to missing dependencies and therefore the package libelektra5-yamlcpp is not available.

We provide repositories for latest releases and latest builds from master (suite postfixed with -unstable) for Fedora 33.

For our stable repository with our latest releases:

wget https://rpms.libelektra.org/fedora-33/libelektra.repo -O libelektra.repo;
sudo mv libelektra.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/;
sudo yum update

Or alternatively you can use dnf to add this repo:

dnf config-manager --add-repo https://rpms.libelektra.org/fedora-33/libelektra.repo

For our latest builds from master append -unstable to the suite name:

wget https://rpms.libelektra.org/fedora-33-unstable/libelektra.repo -O libelektra.repo;
sudo mv libelektra.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/;
sudo yum update

Or alternatively you can use dnf to add this repo:

dnf config-manager --add-repo https://rpms.libelektra.org/fedora-33-unstable/libelektra.repo

To get all packaged plugins, bindings and tools install:

# For Debian based distributions
apt-get install libelektra5-all
# For Fedora based distributions
dnf install libelektra5-all

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

# For Debian based distributions
apt-get install elektra-bin
# For Fedora based distributions
dnf install elektra-bin

To install all debugsym/debuginfo packages:

# For Debian based distributions
apt-get install elektra-dbg
# For Fedora based distributions
dnf install elektra-dbg

If you want to install individual debugsym/debuginfo packages:

# For Debian based distributions
apt-get install <packagename>-dbgsym # e.g. apt-get install libelektra5-dbgsym
# For Fedora based distributions
dnf debuginfo-install <packagename> # e.g. dnf debuginfo-install libelektra5

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

make package # See CPack below

You can install Elektra using Homebrew via the shell command:

brew install elektra

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

Installation for WSL is described here.

If you prefer native but in functionality limited version you can download MinGW builds from here.

Otherwise 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. We recommend to use the packages from our build server or that you generate your own packages with CPack.

The current supported systems are: Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora.

Then use:

make package

which will create packages for distributions where a Generator is implemented.

You can find the generated packages in the package directory of the build directory.

NOTE: If all plugins/bindings/tools a package includes are excluded, the package will not be generated.

On Debian based distributions you will need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before generating the package. Simply cd into the build directory and run following command:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(pwd)/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} make package

To install the packages run this in the package directory:

apt-get install ./*

If any dependency problems appear, run following command to install the missing dependencies:

apt-get -f install

To install RPM packages we recommend using yum localinstall since installing with rpm doesn't resolve missing dependencies.

Run following command in the package directory:

yum localinstall *

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

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.