Dear Andy, There is no package of whois-server provided, only the source tarball. We also don't have a list of packaged prerequisites, as it depends a lot on how you plan to deploy whois-server in your environment. There are also differences between different versions of even the same linux distribution. We also have a number of perl module dependencies. As a rough list, consider the following: libtool openssl-devel patch file gcc g++ gdb glib2-devel sun-java6-jdk mysql-devel flex bison gettext mlocate mysql-server mailx And the following perl modules: Test::More ExtUtils::Embed IO::Socket::INET6 Net::IP Net::Telnet Your best bet is to just start trying to compile/run, and look for error messages. Missing dependencies in whois-server fail hard most of the time, and always produce an error message. Kind regards, Agoston Horvath Database Group RIPE NCC On 2011-09-28 7:13 PM, Andy Davidson wrote:

Hi,

I've read the install procedures for the ripe whois database, and see that you mention you develop on Debian Linux.

Can the pre-requisites be installed with packages, and do you have a list of packages I can paste into "dpkg --set-selections" to satisfy the pre-requisites ?

I'll assume for now there is no package for the installed whois server.. :-)

Andy