Building cavestats

[Andy Waddington]

Sometime before sending, Wookey typed (and on Thursday 2011-02-03 sent):

> Solutions to this are either a) ...
> 
> b) ...

> I started looking at this in more detail but realised it was going to
> take me a long time to sort and I _really_ needed to just make the
> website work.

Maybe this is a faster way ? 

(c) install the same OS as the server on a VM and build the tools there,
then copy across. This lets you have root on a machine with the same
versions of everything, and with things installed that you might not
want on the server. The same solution then works (provided you keep the
VM in step with server updates) for similar things in the future.

Does need a machine with the same hardware architecture as the server
(or one which will run a VM simulating the same hardware...) and a
copy of Debian lenny (of the right bit-width) to install.

Andy