Re: [squid-users] Squid : better on Debian or Ubunto server ?

Hi there

On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> The big difference between Debian and Ubuntu is the X server/kde/gnome GUI
> interface. Once you eliminate that you may as well flip a coin to choose.

You can choose the desktop / window manager.
Ubuntu Gnome
Kubuntu KDE
Xubuntu Xfce

AFAIK Ubuntu is a mix of Debian Testing, Unstable and Experimental with a
few added non Debian packages.
On Debian you can do something similar by installing testing during
freeze and then create a few backports from unstable and experimental.

Debian Stable / Lenny provides Squid 2.7 and 3.0 (section web).
If you want 3.1 you have to compile it yourself;
Install gcc and libldap2-dev, libpam0g-dev, libdb-dev, sharutils, dpatch
(>= 2.0.9), cdbs, libsasl2-dev, debhelper (>=5), libcppunit-dev.
And download the source of course;
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.1/

The file
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/squid3/squid3_3.0.STABLE8.orig.tar.gz
lists the differences between the Debian and the original version of Squid
3.0. It's mainly added copyright notices and a change in the install
procedure. I didn't apply the patch (which is for 3.0), but used configure
options instead. I could' get all the configure options to work though.
Nor did I succeed in telling it not to install libexec in
/usr/local/squid/libexec/
It also links libdl instead of librt. I don't know why.
It does work though.

Regards,
Rob
Received on Sat Apr 04 2009 - 11:03:50 MDT