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Daniel Bartholomew
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Daniel Bartholomew has been using Linux since 1997 and databases since 1998. In addition to this book, he has also written MariaDB Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and dozens of articles for various magazines, including The Linux Journal, Linux Pro, Ubuntu User, and Tux. He became involved with the MariaDB project shortly after it began in early 2009 and continues to be involved to this day. He currently works for MariaDB, Inc. and splits his time between managing MariaDB releases, documentation, and maintaining various bits and pieces that keep the MariaDB project running smoothly.
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Installing the libhsclient library


The libhsclient library is what client libraries use to talk to HandlerSocket. This library is not included with MariaDB; so, we need to either install it from our Linux distribution's package repositories or build and install it ourselves.

Getting ready

Install and configure the HandlerSocket plugin as described in the Installing and configuring HandlerSocket recipe earlier in this chapter. In order to build the libhsclient library, we need to have some development tools and packages installed.

On Red Hat, Fedora, or CentOS, run the following command to install the necessary tools:

sudo yum install make gcc-c++

On Debian or Ubuntu, run the following command to install the necessary tools:

sudo apt-get install make g++

We are now ready to build and install the libhsclient libraries.

How to do it...

  1. Download the latest HandlerSocket source file as follows:

    wget \
    https://github.com/DeNA/HandlerSocket-Plugin-for-MySQL/archive/master.tar.gz
    
  2. Change to the /usr/local...

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Daniel Bartholomew

Daniel Bartholomew has been using Linux since 1997 and databases since 1998. In addition to this book, he has also written MariaDB Cookbook, Packt Publishing, and dozens of articles for various magazines, including The Linux Journal, Linux Pro, Ubuntu User, and Tux. He became involved with the MariaDB project shortly after it began in early 2009 and continues to be involved to this day. He currently works for MariaDB, Inc. and splits his time between managing MariaDB releases, documentation, and maintaining various bits and pieces that keep the MariaDB project running smoothly.
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