Install bucardo 5.4.1 in ubuntu 12.04 / 14.04 LTS

install_bucardo.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Based on the instructions in
# https://bucardo.org/wiki/Bucardo/Installation

# -------- configuration: Variables
BUCARDO_VERSION='5.4.1'
DOWNLOAD_URL="http://bucardo.org/downloads/Bucardo-${BUCARDO_VERSION}.tar.gz"

# -------------------------------
TEMP_FILE="/tmp/${RANDOM}.tar.gz"
USR_LOCAL_DIR="/usr/local/"


# Install DBIx::Safe
sudo aptitude install libdbix-safe-perl

# Install Per prerequisites (boolean, DBI::Pg, Test::Simple)
sudo aptitude install libboolean-perl libdbd-pg-perl libtest-simple-perl

# Download and unpack the Bucardo tarball
wget –quiet {DOWNLOAD_URL}  –output-document ${TEMP_FILE}
tar xvfz ${TEMP_FILE} --directory ${USR_LOCAL_DIR}

# Install the Bucardo software
cd ${USR_LOCAL_DIR}/Bucardo-${BUCARDO_VERSION}
perl Makefile.PL
make
sudo make install

# delete temporary file
rm ${TEMP_FILE}

# For the next steps, you are on your own. 

# Depending on the database you have, you need to manually install 
# postgresql-plperl-x.x to the correspondent version postgresql-x.x.
# sudo aptitude install postgresql-plperl-x.x

# create dir 
# sudo mkdir /var/run/bucardo

# create bucardo user
sudo adduser bucardo 

# Become postgres
# su - postgres

# install Bucardo (be sure that you have the necessary permissions in pg_hba.conf)
# bucardo install