Building Quassel core with PostgreSQL support on Ubuntu Hardy¶

These instructions tell how to build the latest quassel core for your Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron server. PostgreSQL database backend will be used instead of the default SQLite backend, since it scales better with many users and much of history.

Make sure repositores are up-to-date

sudo apt-get update

Install required dependencies and build tools

sudo apt-get install git-core postgresql-8.3 qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libqt4-sql-psql screen

Pull out source codes

git clone git://git.quassel-irc.org/quassel.git

Build it

cd quassel
cmake .

Setup PostgreSQL database master user

Follow these instructions

Setup quassel PostgreSQL database:

sudo -i
sudo -u postgres psql
postgres=# CREATE USER quassel ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'somepassword';
CREATE ROLE
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE quassel WITH OWNER quassel ENCODING 'UTF8';
CREATE DATABASE

Create SSL certificate:

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout ~/.config/quassel-irc.org/quasselCert.pem -out ~/.config/quassel-irc.org/quasselCert.pem

Running Core¶

Screen is a terminal tool which allwos you to leave terminal sessions running background even when you are logged out.

We run quassel in screen so that core keeps running as long as it is killed or the server is restarted

screen
cd quassel
./quasselcore

Later we can reattach to this session. Login in and type:

screen -x