Newbish question about rasqlinsert - need mysql dev package installed

[Ralph Adame]

That did the trick. Thanks, John.

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM, John Gerth <gerth at graphics.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On 5/20/2011 2:20 PM, Ralph Adame wrote:
>> Greetings all. Apologies in advance for the very basic question. I've
>> been reading about rasqlinsert for some time and finally have cycles
>> to attempt to use it.
>>
>> So, I download, compiled, and installed argus-clients-3.0.4.1 but do
>> not see the rasqlinsert binary anywhere. Do I need to actually
>> configure with mysql flags/options for the binary to be built and
>> installed? e.g.
>>
>> ./configure --with-mysql=yes
>>
>> I'm running Ubutnu 11.04. Thank you.
>>
>  The most likely thing is that you don't have the mysql development package
>  installed. argus needs that to get the headers and client libs. It's easy
>  to check (see below) with:
>        dpkg -l libmysqlclient-dev
>
>  BTW, same is true for RedHat-like distros, although there you check with
>        rpm -q mysql-devel
>
> --
> John Gerth      gerth at graphics.stanford.edu  Gates 378   (650) 725-3273  fax 723-0033
>
> ************ sample dpkg
>
> dpkg -l libmysqlclient-dev
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                        Version                     Description
> +++-===========================-===========================-======================================================================
> ii  libmysqlclient-dev          5.1.49-1ubuntu8.1           MySQL database development files
>