ArangoDB for Arch Linux - Binary Version Without Manual Compilation (AUR)

I was once the maintainer of ArangoDB package in AUR. While the package was fine (I think), I am quite tired of having it compiled myself. It's just I am getting older, I guess. Then I prefer binary version after leaving maintainer role. Now I can use it using RPM file of OpenSuSE Factory version - available from ArangoDB download page. Some tweaks are needed anyway. I will give you some tweaks that I successfully use to make it works. In this post, I put all of installation files under /home/bpdp/software/arangodb (a.k.a $ARANGO_HOME).

• cd $ARANGO_HOME
• Install rpmextract package: # pacman -S rpmextract
• Extract RPM file: $ rmpextract.sh path/to/arangodb-2.5.3-12.1.i586.rpm
• Move conf files into etc: $ mv etc/arangodb/*.conf etc/
• Delete init.d dir (we don't need that): $ rm -rf etc/int.d
• All database will reside in db, so: $ mkdir db
• Here's the dir structure:

$ ls
total 48
drwxr-xr-x  9 bpdp bpdp  4096 May  4 10:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 91 bpdp bpdp  4096 May  4 10:16 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 bpdp bpdp  4096 May  4 10:12 bin
drwxr-xr-x  2 bpdp bpdp  4096 May  4 10:19 db
drwxr-xr-x  2 bpdp bpdp  4096 May  4 10:30 etc
drwxr-xr-x  4 bpdp bpdp  4096 May  4 10:12 lib
drwxr-xr-x  2 bpdp bpdp  4096 May  4 10:12 sbin
drwxr-xr-x  5 bpdp bpdp  4096 May  4 10:12 share
drwxr-xr-x  4 bpdp bpdp  4096 May  4 10:12 var
$

• Create all needed dirs: cluster and mri (ruby): $ mkdir -p share/arangodb/mr/client/modules; mkdir -p shar/arangodb/mr/common/modules.
• $ mkdir -p var/log/arangodb/cluster; mkdir -p lib/arangodb/cluster
• Edit etc/*.conf to reflect all of those dir location.
• Delete unneeded dirs/files: $ rm -rf lib/systemd/; rm -rf etc/init.d/; rm -rf sbin/rcarango.
• Set PATH and MANPATH. You may put this inside $HOME/.bashrc:

export ARANGO_HOME=$HOME/software/arangodb
export PATH=$PATH:$ARANGO_HOME/bin:$ARANGO_HOME/sbin
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$ARANGO_HOME/share/man

Installation finish. You should source .bashrc or open another terminal and then you may active the server daemon and / or arango shell:

• Activate arango daemon: $ arangod -c ~/software/arangodb/etc/arangod.conf
• Enter arango shell: $ arangosh -c ~/software/arangodb/etc/arangosh.conf

That's all I guess, you may now use ArangoDB. 

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