This is example how to build RPM package from source package (libaio-0.3.105-2.src.rpm). Note gcc, make and rpm-build (and dependent) packages must be already installed on your system. # rpm -ivh libaio-0.3.105-2.src.rpm # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ # rpmbuild --target i386 liba...
It has been also known to work with Slackware, SuSe, Mandrake and Gentoo as well, as per the official documentation.In this post, I will only focus on Red Hat and Debian based distributions, and show how to build a RPM or DEB package from the source using CheckInstall....
BuildRoot: ~/rpmbuild/# Build with the following syntax:# rpmbuild --target noarch -bb utils.spec Comment lines are ignored by therpmbuildprogram. I always like to add a comment to this section that contains the exact syntax of therpmbuildcommand required to create the package. The Summary...
How do I build a source RPM using rpmbuild? UpdatedNovember 15 2024 at 4:10 PM- English Building a source RPM will compile the source code of a particular package into an executable binary on your machine. This is useful when there is no working binary RPM for the current kernel or Red...
In this tutorial we'll see how to create an rpm package starting from an application source code. The application we will package isfeh, a simple command line image viewer: it is quite small and has few dependencies. Before starting to build our first package, there are, however, some ess...
Software to build the package. Source code to package. SPEC file to build the RPM. Installing the required software The following packages need to be installed to build the RPM package: $sudodnfinstall-yrpmdevtools rpmlint After installingrpmdevtools, create the file tree you need to build RPM...
In this article we will introduce you to alien, a tool that converts between different Linux package formats, with .rpm to .deb (and vice versa) being the most common usage.
Afterward, we’ll need toconverttheRPMpackage tocpio, which we’ll be able to extract: $ rpm2cpio translate-shell*.rpm | cpio -idm Let’s break this down: rpm2cpioconverts the RPM to CPIO -iextracts the contents of the archive ...
1. Download the.rpmpackage for the software you want to install. Make sure to use a trusted source for your download. 2. Open the terminal and use thecd commandto move to thedirectorywhere you saved the.rpmfile. 3. Use the syntax below to convert the RPM file and install it: ...
You may also have some luck grabbing the proper *.deb or *.rpm from your package manager. In the terminal window of a Debian-based system (as root), type: apt-get install application_name In the terminal window of a Red Hat-based system (as root), type: ...