INSTALL

This code is not beta, not alpha, but like something unnamed where
only three people in the world are using it. YMMV. Expect much debuggery.
If you have questions/complaints/bugs, please email
logstash-users@googlegroups.com.

# Prereqs:
These instructions assume you are on a relatively recent
linux system, that you have a working (C) build environment,
that you have ruby and rubygems installed.

# Installation Instructions...
You should have ruby and rubygems installed.
After that install the following gems, via 'gem install gemname'

required gems:
- json
- jls-grok           # for grok filter support
- amqp               # for amqp://
- em-http-request    # for elasticsearch://
- eventmachine-tail  # for file://
- em-websocket       # for websocket://
- mkdtemp
- uuid

For the web interface:
- async_synatra
- haml
- sass

If you are on centos download and install a newer flex:
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/9/Fedora/source/SRPMS/flex-2.5.35-1.fc9.src.rpm

# For 'jls-grok' you will need grok installed.
  Install the following packages (centos: sudo yum install pkgname)
  pcre-devel, libevent-devel, gperf

# TODO(sissel): use a grok release
svn checkout http://semicomplete.googlecode.com/svn/grok
cd grok
make
sudo make install

# On Linux:
Check your /etc/ld.so.conf, or /etc/ld.so.conf.d/* . 
If not already set add /usr/local/lib and run 'ldconfig' as root to update the
library cache list.