Riak

I’ve been playing around with Riak lately and wanted to make use of the python client. Ran into a small issue setting it all up in virtualenv. My system is Arch Linux.

After making sure protobuf was installed system wide, currently the latest version is 2.4.1. In my virtualenv I did the following to get it all sorted out;

wget http://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.4.1.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf protobuf-2.4.1.tar.bz2
cd protobuf-2.4.1/python/
python setup.py install
pip install riak

Make sure you download the protobuf version that matches what you installed system wide. See download page

Running “pip install riak” first and it was attempting to pull in a protobuf library from basho and for some reason it was failing. So did the above and things look good.