> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://mariadb.com/docs/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://mariadb.com/docs/galera-cluster/galera-management/installation-and-deployment/advanced-installation-from-source/building-the-galera-wsrep-package-on-ubuntu-and-debian.md).

# Building the Galera wsrep Package on Ubuntu and Debian

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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