Installation depends on which format you choose to download. If you've got a package such as RPM or DEB, check your package manager documentation for how to install new packages.
If you downloaded the source code (in a tarball), you must compile the software. For doing so, once you have unpacked the source tree, you must:
./configure make make install |
This will generate the makefiles for your specific platform, compile all the source tree, and install the binaries and documentation in your system.
If you don't find a file named configure, there should be one called autogen.sh. In this case, run autogen.sh, which will create and run the generated configure file.
You can specify several arguments to configure (or autogen.sh). The most significant are (you can check all the available arguments by running configure --help):
--prefix=<directory>: Prefix where package will be installed
--with-gnome=<directory>, --with-gnome-includes, --with-gnome-libs: Directories where GNOME development files are installed
--with-mysql=<directory>: Specify directory where MySQL backend is installed
--with-postgres=<directory>: Specify directory where PostgreSQL backend is installed
--with-sybase=<directory>: Specify directory where Sybase backend is installed
--with-ldap=<directory>: Specify directory where LDAP backend is installed
--with-oracle=<directory>: Specify directory where ORACLE backend is installed
If you find any problem during the configuration, compilation or installation process, do not hesitate in contacting the GNOME-DB mailing list (gnome-db-list@gnome.org, first send an email to gnome-db-list-request@gnome.org with the subject SUBSCRIBE if you are not already subscribed).