Building PyLucene on Ubuntu Edgy

PenguinTV actually has a good search feature, but it’s rarely used because it requires PyLucene, and installing PyLucene is extremely hard. Here’s the HOWTO for Ubuntu Edgy:

• Make sure you have the following packages installed (may not be enough): gcj, libdb4.4, libdb4.4-dev, libdb4.4-java, libdb4.4-java-dev, libdb4.4-java-gcj
• download and extract pylucene
• Also download berkeleydb 4.4.20, and extract it inside the extracted pylucene folder
• change to db-4.4.20/build_unix
• run

  ../dist/configure

• do not make or install db-4.4, it’s not necessary. Pylucene just needs the sources
• edit Makefile and insert the following:

  PREFIX=/usr
  PREFIX_PYTHON=$(PREFIX)
  LIBDIR_NAME=lib
  GCJ_HOME=/usr
  GCJ_LIBDIR=$(GCJ_HOME)/$(LIBDIR_NAME)
  GCJ_STATIC=0
  DB=$(PYLUCENE)/db-$(DB_VER)
  PREFIX_DB=$(PREFIX)
  ANT=ant
  PYTHON=$(PREFIX_PYTHON)/bin/python

• Then try running Make and see if it works