Learn How To Build Brotli From Source on Debian 9
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Brotli is a new compression method with a better compression ratio than Gzip. Its source code is publicly hosted on Github. This guide will show you the commands you need to run and build Brotli from source code on Debian 9.
Before you begin
Check the Debian version.
lsb_release -ds
# Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch)
Ensure that your system is up to date.
apt update && apt upgrade -y
Install curl
, wget
and sudo
packages; if they’re not already installed.
apt install -y curl wget sudo
Create a new non-root user account with sudo
access and switch to it.
adduser johndoe --gecos "John Doe"
usermod -aG sudo johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Set up the timezone.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Build Brotli
Install build tools and required packages.
sudo apt install -y build-essential gcc make bc sed autoconf automake libtool git apt-transport-https
Clone the Brotli repository.
git clone https://github.com/google/brotli.git
Navigate to the Brotli source directory.
cd brotli
Create a manual page for Brotli commands.
sudo cp ~/brotli/docs/brotli.1 /usr/share/man/man1 && sudo gzip /usr/share/man/man1/brotli.1
Check the manual page.
man brotli
To generate Autotools’ configure
file, first run the ./bootstrap
command.
./bootstrap
After the command above, you will have access to the usual C program build steps: configure
, make
and make install
.
For help, run the ./configure --help
command.
Now, build Brotli.
./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib/brotli --libdir=/usr/lib/brotli --datarootdir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man/man1 --docdir=/usr/share/doc
make
sudo make install
After the successful build process, you can check the version.
brotli --version
# brotli 1.0.7
That’s it. You have successfully built Brotli from source code. You can now compress and decompress your files with Brotli compression format on your server.
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