GlusterFS install from Source

Compilation from Source

If you wish to install glusterrfs in a fresh out of the box Ubuntu 12.04 machine.

1. Download first the glusterfs3.3.1 Download Source Code
2. You may also need
   • sudo apt-get install flex
   • sudo apt-get install bison
   • sudo apt-get install openssl
   • sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
3. An error like this may occur after you run autoreconf -f or ./configure

4.             checking if libxml2 is present... ./configure: line 12975: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBXML2,          ./configure: line 12975: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBXML2, libxml-2.0 >= 2.6.19,'

5. YOU MAY  NEED TO DO THIS BUT NOT REQUIRED!!!git clone git://git.gnome.org/libxml  As you may have an older version installed of libxml2
6. 1. cd libxml2; ./autogen.sh; make; make install
   2. By default libxml2 will try to install using python-dev, simply install it or remove it from the ./configure commnand line
   3. apt-get install python-dev
   4. make; make install
   5. cd ..
7. REAL SOLUTION FIX: You need to autoreconf -f, but first
   • apt-get install pkg-config
   • pkg-config libxml-2.0 –modversion
     • This should return 2.9.1  or similar…
   • autoreconf -f
   • automake –add-missing
   • ./configure
   • make; make install
8. IF this FAILS, you may need to  git clone https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs.git  run ./autogen.sh and ./configure again before make;make install in the glusterfs directory. 

CONFIGURATION FOR SEVERAL REPLICAS 

You need to create a /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol file, that is going to be read as glusterfsd.  If you see the old, GlusterFS used to use gluserfs-server not glistered.  The client remains glisters for all versions.