I use Debian Lenny, which is a Linux distribution and even with a bunch of libraries installed, I still had to do some dancing.

Getting Started

First step, read the README, no really, there are bunch of dependencies.  I felt like I was installing GnuCash before apt/yum/yast.  For the Debian distribution you need to apt-get the following:

apt-get install g++ make cmake libdb4.6++-dev libboost-*-dev liblog4cpp5-dev expat-devel libreadline5-dev zlib1g-dev libevent-dev

Installing Hyperic-Sigar

I followed the instructions in the README without any issues.

Installing Thrift

Several dependencies I ran into are not in the README, but these are thrift dependencies so I guess it’s ok.  The bootstrap.sh script errored, stating it was looking for the autoscan command.  Then I ran into several other errors when Thrift tried to compile.  So I put the full list of the remaining dependencies below:

apt-get install autoconf libtool byacc flex ruby-dev

Compiling Hypertable

The final and last step, compile!  Well… sort of.  I downloaded hypertable from the website and for some odd reason (could be me), I ran into an issue trying to run cmake against the source.  In the README they mention grabbing the source from a git repository.  So, I grabbed the source from the repository and bam!, it compiled.  Remember to read the README, setup the build directory and src directory.  I don’t think it matters where they are, just make sure you have them in separate directories.

I hope this helps someone and if anyone has any changes or comments I would like to hear them.

Next step, put Hypertable to work.