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# Building the Galera wsrep Package on Ubuntu and Debian

Build the galera wsrep provider .deb package on Ubuntu and Debian, covering prerequisites, the build.sh script workflow, and the steps required to run the galera test suite afterward.

The instructions on this page were used to create the *galera* package on the Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions. This package contains the wsrep provider for [MariaDB Galera Cluster](/docs/galera-cluster/readme.md).

For the list of Galera wsrep provider versions and the MariaDB release each one first shipped in, see:

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1. Install prerequisites:

```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get -y install check debhelper libasio-dev libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev libssl-dev scons
```

2. Clone [galera.git](https://github.com/mariadb/galera) from [github.com/mariadb](https://github.com/mariadb) and checkout mariadb-3.x branch:

```
git init repo
cd repo
git clone -b mariadb-3.x https://github.com/MariaDB/galera.git
```

3. Build the packages by executing `build.sh` under scripts/ directory with `-p` switch:

```
cd galera
./scripts/build.sh -p
```

When finished, you will have the Debian packages for galera library and arbitrator in the parent directory.

## Running galera test suite

If you want to run the `galera` test suite (`mysql-test-run --suite=galera`), you need to install the galera library as either `/usr/lib/galera/libgalera_smm.so` or `/usr/lib64/galera/libgalera_smm.so`

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