GraphLab Installation on Ubuntu

The directions below are for Ubuntu Natty (11.04)

0) Login into your ubuntu machine (64 bit).
On amazon EC2 – you can launch instance AMI-e9965180

1) Installing boost+zlib.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libboost1.42-all-dev

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev

sudo apt-get install build-essential

sudo apt-get install libboost1.42-all-dev

2) Install Mercurial

sudo apt-get install mercurial

1	sudo apt-get install mercurial

3) Install cmake

sudo apt-get install cmake

1	sudo apt-get install cmake

4) Install openmpi + java

sudo apt-get install libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin default-jdk

1	sudo apt-get install libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin default-jdk

5a) Install graphlab from mercurial

Go to graphlab download page, and follow the download link to the mercurial repository.

copy the command string: “hg clone…” and execute it in your ubuntu shell.Note: After you cloned the repository and you would like to get up to date,

you can issue the commands:

hg pull
hg update

1 2	hg pull hg update

or 5b) Install graphlab from tgz file

Go to graphlab download page, and download the latest release.
Extract the tgz file using the command: “tar xvzf *.tar.gz”

6) configure and compile

cd graphlabapi
./configure
cd release/
make -j4

cd graphlabapi

./configure

cd release/

make -j4

For any questions or bug fixes about this tutorial, please email: graphlabapi@googlegroups.com

with the following information:

GraphLab Inc. is Funded!