During the ArangoDB Hackathon weekend, we tried to compile ArangoDB on a Raspberry PI using Raspbian as operating system.

ArangoDB needs some external libraries in order to compile

• libev
• ICU
• V8
• zlib

Libev, ICU and zlib compiled without problems. Raspbian comes with a precompiled version of V8 – but it’s too old for ArangoDB. So, we had to compile V8 ourself. A single make run takes hours and hours to complete. Using the default parameters it complains about wrong flags for the hard-float ABI. After some googling and endless hours of waiting for the compile to complete, we found a set of..

During the ArangoDB Hackathon weekend, we tried to compile ArangoDB on a Raspberry PI using Raspbian as operating system.

ArangoDB needs some external libraries in order to compile

How to use ArangoDB on Uberspace?

ArangoDB is (not yet) available on Uberspace. So how to use it? Basically Uberspace is a Centos 6 linux system, so you can use the executables provided. I’ve created a small shell script to install ArangoDB on an Uberspace system. Note that this is still experimental.