2.2. Build and install the sqlite driver

First you have to unpack the libdbi-drivers archive in a suitable directory. Unpacking will create a new subdirectory libdbi-drivers-X.Y where "X.Y" denotes the version:

$ tar -xzf libdbi-drivers-0.3.tar.gz

The libdbi-drivers project consists of several drivers that use a common build system. Therefore you must tell configure explicitly that you want to build the sqlite driver (you can list as many drivers as you want to build):

$ cd libdbi-drivers

$ ./configure --with-sqlite

Run ./configure --help to find out about additional options.

Then build the driver with the command:

$ make

Then install the driver with the command (you'll need root permissions to do this):

$ make install

To test the operation of the newly installed driver, use the command:

$ make check

This command creates and runs a test program that performs a few basic input and output tests. The program will ask for a database name. This can be any name that is a valid filename on your system. It will also ask for a data directory. This is the directory that is used to create the test database. Needless to say that you need write access to that directory. If you accept the default ".", the database will be created in the tests subdirectory.