We moved a staff website to a debian lenny VPS, so guess who got to rebuild librets?  this guy.  fairly easy when you figure out the debian names(i'm cut from ubuntu cloth, slight differences)

server:/rets/librets-1.4.0# sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3-dev libexpat1 libexpat1-dev bjam boost-build libboost-dev

then cd into the librets source directory and issue these in order, assuming each doesnt spit any errors.

./configure
make
makeinstall

And thats all there is too it. Now go enjoy that made up p.o.s. query language, what a nightmare, blog coming on that someday.

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checking for curl >= 7.18.2... FAILED 
 configure: error: curl-config was not found
 
 checking for /usr/local/include/expat.h... no 
 checking for /usr/include/expat.h... no 
 checking for /opt/local/include/expat.h... no 
 checking for /opt/include/expat.h... no 
 configure: error: Could not find expat.h