Hello,
I've been working on optimizing the installation and usage process of
MonetDB with Ubuntu.
didn't really knew where to write this, so I thought I'll just post it
here. The current head of the development tree contains all the changes
described here, so this doesn't apply to the current packages yet.
The installation and usage intructions for Ubuntu/Debian will be
Install the MonetDB public key:
$ wget --output-document=- http://monetdb.cwi.nl/downloads/MonetDB-GPG-KEY | sudo apt-key add -
Add the MonetDB repository to your apt configuration, put the following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/monetdb.list:
deb http://monetdb.cwi.nl/downloads/Ubuntu/ karmic monetdb
deb-src http://monetdb.cwi.nl/downloads/Ubuntu/ karmic monetdb
To install the monetdb sql server and all the dependecies use the command:
$ sudo apt-get install monetdb5-sql
If you want to be able to manage the monetdb databases you should add
yourself to the monetdb group of the system:
$ sudo usermod -G monetdb $USER
There is a new startup script available that will start merovingian and
optionally all databases.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/monetdb5-sql