install_steps

STEPS TO INSTALL PYTHON-ROCKSDB IN UBUNTU 16.04 LTS

Step 1:Installing the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libsnappy-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libgflags-dev

Step 2:Downloading and Compiling rocksdb 0.6.7 (note that python-rocksdb will be installed)

git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
cd rocksdb
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install INSTALL_PATH=/usr

Follow step 3 only if you want to use python-rocksdb in virtual environment or else go to step 4 directly

Step 3:

cd
virtualenv pytest
cd pytest
. bin/activate
pip3 install "Cython>=0.20"
pip3 install git+git://github.com/twmht/python-rocksdb.git


Step 4:(FOR SYSTEMWIDE INSTALLATION)

sudo pip3 install "Cython>=0.20"
sudo pip3 install git+git://github.com/twmht/python-rocksdb.git


NOTE: The 0.6.7 version works with all the python versions. This method has been tried and tested in python 2.7, 3.5.2 and 3.6
Following both the steps will let you use the python-rocksdb in both virtual environment as well as normally.
If you plan to use Python IDE for rocksdb, please use step 4 to install rocksdb.