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I'd demonstrate the set up of Apache log4cxx on Ubuntu 12.x in following steps: 1. Download all required packages 2. Build Log4cxx via Apache Maven 3. Use the libraries in a NetBeans C++ project on Ubuntu Linux. Reference URL: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Log4cxx.html This URL is quite detailed and explains things for other *nix operating systems as well. I wanted to start with minimum steps required, hence this post. I have a Windows 7 desktop and have Ubuntu 12.x 64-bit running on it via Oracle Virtualbox. So Ubuntu is running as a guest on my Windows 7 host. [The reference URL mentions different versions of  'libaprXX' libs but we have to use 'libapr1-dev' and 'libaprutil-dev', will see that later.] Prerequisites (install all of the following one by one) autoconf and automake --> sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libxml2 and libxml2-devel ( http://xmlsoft.org/ ) --> sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev gmp (