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authorDan Crosta <dcrosta@10gen.com>2012-02-21 10:05:00 -0500
committerDan Crosta <dcrosta@10gen.com>2012-02-21 10:05:28 -0500
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DOCS-129: update build instructions for Ubuntu and OS X
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UBUNTU
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- scons libboost-dev libpcre++-dev xulrunner-1.9.1-dev
+To install dependencies on Ubuntu systems:
+
+ # aptitude install scons build-essential
+ # aptitude install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev
+
+To run tests as well, you will need PyMongo:
+
+ # aptitude install python-pymongo
+
+Then build as usual with `scons`:
+
+ $ scons all
OS X
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-Try homebrew -- brew install mongodb.
+Try [Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/):
+
+ $ brew install mongodb
FREEBSD