Installing on Fedora 18

This document assumes an installation from git, but can be modified to use source packages downloaded from ambitionframework.org.

Install required packages:

sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ make vala cmake libgee08-devel json-glib-devel readline-devel libsoup-devel libgda-devel libgda-sqlite couchdb-glib-devel git

Create a work directory:

mkdir ambition-src

Install libgscgi. Feel free to ignore warnings, but there shouldn't be any errors.

git clone https://github.com/AmbitionFramework/libgscgi.git
cd libgscgi
make
sudo make install
cd ..

Install log4vala. Feel free to ignore warnings, but there shouldn't be any errors.

git clone https://github.com/nmelnick/log4vala.git
cd log4vala
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
cd ../..

Install Almanna.

git clone https://github.com/AmbitionFramework/almanna.git
cd almanna
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/pkgconfig/almanna-0.1.pc /usr/share/pkgconfig/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libalmanna-0.1.so /usr/lib64/
cd ../..

Install Ambition.

git clone https://github.com/AmbitionFramework/ambition.git
cd ambition
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ambition-0.1.pc /usr/share/pkgconfig/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libambition-0.1.so /usr/lib64/
cd ../..

Ambition is ready to use!