<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>Getting and Using DB </title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="gettingStarted.css" type="text/css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.62.4" /> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Getting Started with Berkeley DB" /> <link rel="up" href="introduction.html" title="Chapter 1. Introduction to Berkeley DB " /> <link rel="previous" href="returns.html" title="Error Returns" /> <link rel="next" href="DB.html" title="Chapter 2. Databases" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">Getting and Using DB </th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="returns.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 1. Introduction to Berkeley DB </th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DB.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="gettingit"></a>Getting and Using DB </h2> </div> </div> <div></div> </div> <p> You can obtain DB by visiting the Berkeley DB download page: <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/db/index.html" target="_top">http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/db/index.html</a>. </p> <p> To install DB, untar or unzip the distribution to the directory of your choice. You will then need to build the product binaries. For information on building DB, see <span class="emphasis"><em>DB_INSTALL</em></span><tt class="literal">/docs/index.html</tt>, where <span class="emphasis"><em>DB_INSTALL</em></span> is the directory where you unpacked DB. On that page, you will find links to platform-specific build instructions. </p> <p> That page also contains links to more documentation for DB. In particular, you will find links for the <i class="citetitle">Berkeley DB Programmer's Reference Guide</i> as well as the API reference documentation. </p> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="returns.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="introduction.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DB.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Error Returns </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 2. Databases</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>