reference: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim/Installation

# Prerequisites

## Ubuntu/Debian

    apt-get install build-essential libxml2-dev libgeos-dev libpq-dev libbz2-dev libtool automake libproj-dev
    apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev
    apt-get install gcc proj-bin libgeos-c1 osmosis libgeos++-dev
    apt-get install php5 php-pear php5-pgsql php5-json php-db
    apt-get install postgresql postgis postgresql-contrib postgresql-9.3-postgis-2.1 postgresql-server-dev-9.3
    apt-get install libprotobuf-c0-dev protobuf-c-compiler

# First installation
## Obtaining 2.4.0 (stable release)

    wget http://www.nominatim.org/release/Nominatim-2.4.0.tar.bz2
    tar xvf Nominatim-2.4.0.tar.bz2
    
## Compiling sources

    cd Nominatim
    ./configure
    make
    
## Creating postgres accounts

    createuser -SDR www-data