Rootless on Debian/Ubuntu

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This how-to page provides platform specific notes for using GoboRootless on Debian and/or Ubuntu. You will also need to follow the general instructions on Installing GoboRootless.

[edit] General notes

As neither Debian nor Ubuntu are, by default, development platforms, you may run into problems. The default install library versions are decidedly "development unfriendly". A possible solution is to try to figure out how to install the development versions of these libraries. Usually, if a library can be installed with a command like "apt-get install libwhat", a development version can be installed with "apt-get install libwhat-dev".

[edit] Installing prerequisites

Before you attempt to run CreateRootlessEnvironment, please make sure that all the following are installed:

$ apt-get install build-essential
$ apt-get install bzip2
$ apt-get install python
$ apt-get install libncurses-dev

WARNING: Debian/Ubuntu seem to use 'mawk' instead of 'gawk'. This difference can cause seemingly arbitrary and deeply embedded errors. A workaround is to 'Compile gawk' immediately after 'Compile mtail'. This seems to work.