Compiling Stone Steps Webalizer on Debian

After some work I have found out how to compile Stone Steps Webalizer on Debian. Stone Steps Webalizer is based on the original Webalizer with a lot of new features. Since it isn't available as a Debian package yet, you have to compile it from source. It took me some time to figure out how to compile it so here's a mini-howto.

Step by step

First, install the following packages:

• g++-3.3 - The GNU C++ compiler
• libdb4.3++-dev - Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries for C++
• libdb4.3-dev - Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries
• libgd2 - GD Graphics Library version 2
• libgd2-dev - GD Graphics Library version 2

Then do the following:

ln -s /usr/bin/g++-3.3 /usr/bin/cc	

This makes sure that make picks the right compiler in the last step. Now get the source from the Stone Steps site. Unzip it and then type:

make -f makefile.gnu

It should now build cleanly and you should have a build directory in which you will find the files you need.