# How to install FDB after compiling source code

**URL:** https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/how-to-install-fdb-after-compiling-source-code/832
**Category:** Using FoundationDB
**Created:** [November 1, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/how-to-install-fdb-after-compiling-source-code/832 "2018-11-01T06:11:22Z")
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### Author: ![aegis\_bing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@aegis\_bing](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/aegis_bing)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/how-to-install-fdb-after-compiling-source-code/832/1 "2018-11-01T06:11:22Z")

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Hi,

I was trying to build FDB 6.0 from source code. I followed the instruction for Linux in the [README.md](https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/tree/release-6.0). Everything seems fine and it ends up with a very tiny(40K) ‘foundationdb-6.0.15a1.tar.gz’ under packages folder. So I’m confused that does the build actually success and how to install it?

## My target OS is Debian Linux. I used MAC to build the source code. The final output after running ‘make’ in Docker is:

## Creating tar archive removing ‘foundationdb-6.0.15a1’ (and everything under it) root@40b85eaf6b8c:/docker/my\_volume/foundationdb# root@40b85eaf6b8c:/docker/my\_volume/foundationdb# root@40b85eaf6b8c:/docker/my\_volume/foundationdb# root@40b85eaf6b8c:/docker/my\_volume/foundationdb# root@40b85eaf6b8c:/docker/my\_volume/foundationdb# root@40b85eaf6b8c:/docker/my\_volume/foundationdb# root@40b85eaf6b8c:/docker/my\_volume/foundationdb# exit exit

Thanks!

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### Author: ![ajbeamon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/ajbeamon/32/13_2.png) [@ajbeamon](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/ajbeamon)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/how-to-install-fdb-after-compiling-source-code/832/2 "2018-11-01T15:21:54Z")

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I believe that artifact contains the Python bindings. To build the debian packages, you can run make with the `DEB` target, which will produce two debian packages in packages/. Or if you were just after the binaries themselves, they should be present in bin/ and lib/.

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### Author: ![aegis\_bing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@aegis\_bing](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/aegis_bing)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/how-to-install-fdb-after-compiling-source-code/832/3 "2018-11-05T22:49:18Z")

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Hey @ajbeamon

This is awesome, I managed to get the installation package follow your instruction. Appreciate the help!

Best,