Installation is like many common libraries, following the ./configure, make, make install conventions.

For libvbucket, extract the archive then cd into the directory and run:

shell> ./configure
shell> make install

Standard configure options such as --prefix can be passed to the configure command. Running ./configure with --help with provide additional information on configuration options.

For libcouchbase, extract the archive, then cd into the directory and run:

shell> ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/couchbase/include" --disable-couchbasemock
shell> make install

The --disable-couchbasemock simply disables some tests which are common during development of libcouchbase, but not required when installing a release.