[rabbitmq-discuss] Need help installing Rabbit-Server

Sun Aug 24 16:34:04 BST 2008

Pete,

Pete Kay wrote:
> I am trying to get Rabbit installed on Debian without success using both 
> the tarball and .deb.    I think the problem may have to do with lack of 
> certain library in my Debian box.  Here is what I get:
> 
> With the tarball:
> debian:/usr/src/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server-1.4.0# ls
> BUILD    codegen.py  include  LICENSE               Makefile  src
> codegen  ebin        INSTALL  LICENSE-MPL-RabbitMQ  scripts
> debian:/usr/src/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server-1.4.0# make
> python codegen.py header codegen/amqp-0.8.json > include/rabbit_framing.hrl
> python codegen.py body   codegen/amqp-0.8.json > src/rabbit_framing.erl
> erlc -I include -o ebin -Wall -v +debug_info  src/rabbit_framing.erl
> erlc -I include -o ebin -Wall -v +debug_info  src/buffering_proxy.erl
> erlc -I include -o ebin -Wall -v +debug_info  src/rabbit_access_control.erl
> src/rabbit_access_control.erl:27: can't find include lib 
> "stdlib/include/qlc.hrl "
> make: *** [ebin/rabbit_access_control.beam] Error 1

In order to *build* rabbitmq, rather than just running it, your system 
needs to satisfy the following dependencies (taken from the debian 
control file):

cdbs, debhelper (>= 5), erlang-base | erlang-base-hipe, erlang-nox, 
erlang-dev, erlang-src, make, python

> With apt-get:
> 
> debian:/usr/src/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server-1.4.0# apt-get install erlang-base

(I am assuming this was meant to read "install rabbitmq-server")

> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> erlang-base is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up rabbitmq-server (1.4.0-1) ...
> Starting rabbitmq-server: FAILED - check /var/log/rabbitmq/startup.log, .err
> invoke-rc.d: initscript rabbitmq-server, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing rabbitmq-server (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  rabbitmq-server
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> debian:/usr/src/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server-1.4.0#

That's strange. Is there anything in the log files under /var/log/rabbitmq?

Matthias.