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This page documents the requirements and special instructions for building Traffic Server on UbuntuDebian. For more details about the configuration process, plesae refer to the Installation and Configuration page.

NOTE: This was copied from Ubuntu page, we might need to update the packages here!

Debian 9

Generally you use apt-get to get the dependencies for you:
 

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 sudo apt-get install bison flex

ATS v8.0 and later

For ATS v8.0.0 and later, a compiler with support for C++17 is required. You can install this using the testing repo on both Debian 8 and 9:

# This is optional, but prevents apt-get upgrade from upgrading everything from testing. We recommend doing this!
$ cat > /etc/apt/preferences.d/testing
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 50
 
$ sudo cat >> /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get -t testing install linux-compiler-gcc-7-x86 g++-7
 
# This is optional, but prevent apt-get upgrade from upgrading everything from testing
$ cat >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/testing
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 50

ATS v9.0 and later

For ATS v9.0.0 and later, OpenSSL v1.0.2 is required. For this, you can use the testing repo above (which pulls in a much more modern OpenSSL, currently v1.1.1a),and upgrade OpenSSL. Or  for less invasive changes, use the jessie-backports repo:

# You can do a similar pinning as above, but I didn't bother
$ sudo cat >> /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get -t jessie-backports dist-upgrade # Yeh, this will pull in a bunch of things, but seemed reasonable
# Alternatively, just install the openssl package

# Update: As of late, the sources.list should look like 
deb http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
deb-src http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

# And in /etc/apt/apt.conf
Acquire::Check-Valid-Until "false";

Git

To use Git, you must install the appropriate packages:

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For more details how to use Git with our source, please see our Git GitHub page.

configure and build

For more details, see the Building page

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