Debian 6, Botan 1.8.9 + Bine10-devel-20120301

[Spain, Dr. Jeffry A.]

> I found log4c and log4c++ in packages, but not log4cplus, so i think i'll need to compile it as you suggest.

I went through the same search with Ubuntu. The former two are not what is required.

> I'm running Debian stable, not sid. This system is 100% experimental, though, so software can be changed if needed.

It's probably easier to build log4cplus from source than to change OS versions.

Checking the Debian package site: sid has http://packages.debian.org/sid/liblog4cplus-dev, and wheezy has http://packages.debian.org/testing/liblog4cplus-dev, but squeeze doesn't have this package. Ubuntu has the same issues: the upcoming release 12.04LTS, which originated from Debian sid about six months ago, has the package, but the current release 11.10 does not.

I'd be interested in your comments on the following: I have a VMware ESXi 5.0 environment on which all my Ubuntu machines are virtualized. I switched from Debian to Ubuntu a few years ago for a couple of reasons. Ubuntu doesn't have the restrictions on proprietary software that Debian has, so a version of the VMware vmxnet3 virtual NIC driver is built in. This makes it easier to do the initial OS build because you don't have to start out with the lower-performing E1000 virtual nic, which Debian does support, and then change it to vmxnet3 later. Also since Ubuntu does a sid snapshot every six months on which they base their upcoming release, the software packages tend to be more current.

Thanks. Jeff.