The SQLite package is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.
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Download (HTTP): https://sqlite.org/2025/sqlite-autoconf-3500200.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: dbb0ca4546fdef08dcf5edf974ce593a
Download size: 3.0 MB
Estimated disk space required: 71 MB (with documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
Optional Documentation
Download (HTTP): https://sqlite.org/2025/sqlite-doc-3500200.zip
Download MD5 sum: dc4cbe4eadd969253e38aca7996e217c
Download size: 11 MB
libarchive-3.8.1 (required to unzip the documentation) and libedit
If you downloaded the optional documentation, issue the following command to install the documentation into the source tree:
unzip -q ../sqlite-doc-3500200.zip
Install SQLite by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-static \ --enable-fts{4,5} \ CPPFLAGS="-D SQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA=1 \ -D SQLITE_ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY=1 \ -D SQLITE_ENABLE_DBSTAT_VTAB=1 \ -D SQLITE_SECURE_DELETE=1" && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
If you downloaded the optional documentation, issue the following
commands as the root
user to
install it:
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/sqlite-3.50.2 && cp -v -R sqlite-doc-3500200/* /usr/share/doc/sqlite-3.50.2
Several packages use an sqlite Python plugin. After installing this package, Python-3.13.5 should be rebuilt to create this plugin.
--disable-static
: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--enable-fts{4,5}
: These
switches enable support for version 4 and 5 of the full text search
(FTS) extension.
CPPFLAGS="-D
SQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA=1 ...
: Some applications
require these options to be turned on. The only way to do this is
to include them in the CFLAGS
or
CPPFLAGS
. We use the latter so the
default value (or any value set by the user) of CFLAGS
won't be affected. For further information on
what can be specified see https://www.sqlite.org/compile.html.