Re: [igraph] Getting the latest development version of igraph

[Richard Geddes]

Success!  My trail for installing the development igraph library:

1. Check for used packages.  This command will display which of the packages used to install the development version are installed on your system:

$0> dpkg -l | egrep 'tla|autoconf|automake|libtool|bison|flex|libxml2-dev|Name|\+\+\+'
||/ Name                                       Version                 Description
+++-==========================================-=====================
ii  autoconf                                   2.61-4                  automatic configure script builder
ii  automake                                   1:1.10+nogfdl-1         A tool for generating GNU Standards-complian
ii  bison                                      1:2.3.dfsg-5            A parser generator that is compatible with Y
ii  flex                                       2.5.33-12build1         A fast lexical analyzer generator.
ii  libtool                                    1.5.24-1ubuntu1         Generic library support script
ii  libxml2-dev                                2.6.30.dfsg-2ubuntu1    Development files for the GNOME XML library
ii  tla                                        1.3.5+dfsg-9            GNU Arch revision control system

2. If any package is not installed, install them:

$0> sudo apt-get install package [... ]

3. Register the igraph archive:

$0> tla register-archive http://cneurocvs.rmki.kfki.hu/arch/address@hidden
$0> tla my-default-archive address@hidden

4. Get the sources into the dev directory (this time it's called igraph-dev-0.5):

$0> tla get igraph--main--0.5 igraph-dev-0.5

5. To update your archive all you need is to go into the igraph-dev-0.5 
directory and type 

$0> cd (path to)igraph-dev-0.5
$0> tla update

6. Compile the development version:

./bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

7. In the future, to update the development version, run 5 and 6.

Is step 7 correct?  Also when the 0.6 dev version is available run 4, ,5 and 6 (use the name of the new directory ... it will probably be igraph-dev-0.6 instead of igraph-dev-0.5)... yes?

Thanks
Richard


Gabor Csardi wrote:

Try running again ./configure and then make. This should work,
configure needs to know about flex.

G.