SQLite - Installation

SQLite is famous for its great feature zero-configuration, which means no complex setup or administration is needed. This chapter will take you through the process of setting up SQLite on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Step 1 − Go to SQLite download page, and download precompiled binaries from Windows section.
Step 1 − Go to SQLite download page, and download precompiled binaries from Windows section.
Step 2 − Download sqlite-shell-win32-*.zip and sqlite-dll-win32-*.zip zipped files.
Step 2 − Download sqlite-shell-win32-*.zip and sqlite-dll-win32-*.zip zipped files.
Step 3 − Create a folder C:\>sqlite and unzip above two zipped files in this folder, which will give you sqlite3.def, sqlite3.dll and sqlite3.exe files.

Step 3 − Create a folder C:\>sqlite and unzip above two zipped files in this folder, which will give you sqlite3.def, sqlite3.dll and sqlite3.exe files.
Step 4 − Add C:\>sqlite in your PATH environment variable and finally go to the command prompt and issue sqlite3 command, which should display the following result.
Step 4 − Add C:\>sqlite in your PATH environment variable and finally go to the command prompt and issue sqlite3 command, which should display the following result.
C:\>sqlite3
SQLite version 3.7.15.2 2013-01-09 11:53:05
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite>

Today, almost all the flavours of Linux OS are being shipped with SQLite. So you just issue the following command to check if you already have SQLite installed on your machine.
$sqlite3
SQLite version 3.7.15.2 2013-01-09 11:53:05
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite>

If you do not see the above result, then it means you do not have SQLite installed on your Linux machine. Following are the following steps to install SQLite −
Step 1 − Go to SQLite download page and download sqlite-autoconf-*.tar.gz from source code section.
Step 1 − Go to SQLite download page and download sqlite-autoconf-*.tar.gz from source code section.
Step 2 − Run the following command −
Step 2 − Run the following command −
$tar xvfz sqlite-autoconf-3071502.tar.gz
$cd sqlite-autoconf-3071502
$./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$make
$make install

The above command will end with SQLite installation on your Linux machine. Which you can verify as explained above.
Though the latest version of Mac OS X comes pre-installed with SQLite but if you do not have installation available then just follow these following steps −
Step 1 − Go to SQLite download page, and download sqlite-autoconf-*.tar.gz from source code section.
Step 1 − Go to SQLite download page, and download sqlite-autoconf-*.tar.gz from source code section.
Step 2 − Run the following command −
Step 2 − Run the following command −
$tar xvfz sqlite-autoconf-3071502.tar.gz
$cd sqlite-autoconf-3071502
$./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$make
$make install

The above procedure will end with SQLite installation on your Mac OS X machine. Which you can verify by issuing the following command −
$sqlite3
SQLite version 3.7.15.2 2013-01-09 11:53:05
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite>

Finally, you have SQLite command prompt where you can issue SQLite commands for your exercises.

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