Install riak 1.1.2 and R14B03 on a minimal Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server

install_riak.sh

# Install riak-0.14.2rc8 to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32 bit 

# make sure you have a compatible build system and the ncurses and openssl 
# development libraries installed, also git and curl:

sudo aptitude install build-essential libncurses5-dev openssl libssl-dev git-core curl -y

# download, build and install Erlang:

ERLANG=/opt/erlang
sudo mkdir -p /opt
sudo chmod a+w /opt
mkdir -p $ERLANG
cd $ERLANG
wget http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B03.tar.gz
tar zxvf otp_src_R14B03.tar.gz
cd otp_src_R14B03
./configure && make && sudo make install

RIAK=/opt/riak
SRC=/opt/src
RIAK_TGZ=riak-1.1.2.tar.gz
mkdir -p $SRC
sudo chmod a+w $SRC
cd $SRC
wget http://downloads.basho.com/riak/CURRENT/$RIAK_TGZ
tar -xzf $RIAK_TGZ
mv riak-1.1.2 $RIAK
cd $RIAK
make all

# see http://wiki.basho.com/Building-a-Development-Environment.html for the next steps

# start riak: 
# cd ~/dev/riak/current/rel
# sudo riak/bin/riak start