RedHat/Fedora installation prerequisites

Mandatory packages

• the following commands should install all the needed prerequisites (assuming root shell):

 yum install gcc gcc-c++ make autoconf automake libtool bison flex gettext
 yum install patch subversion texinfo git wget
 yum install zlib-devel gettext-devel ncurses-devel lzo-devel libacl-devel
 yum install uuid-devel

Distribution specific tips

Fedora 13 & 14

• as uuid-devel seems not installed at the right place, you may also need to do the following:

cd /usr/include
mkdir uuid
cp uuid.h uuid
cd /usr/lib
ln -s ../../lib64/libuuid.so.1 libuuid.so

Fedora 14

• following operations are needed:
  • downgrade make-3.82 to make-3.81 (Fedora 14 uses make-3.82 which is too restrictive) :
    • First you need to download the correct key (https://fedoraproject.org/static/E8E40FDE.txt) and import this by :

rpm --import E8E40FDE.txt

• • • Now you can downgrade make

yum downgrade make --releasever=13

• • • And to avoid futur upgrade, you need to add

exclude=make*

in /etc/yum.conf

• • install glibc-static to allow insmod.static compilation:

rpm -ivh glibc-static-2.12.90-15.i686.rpm

Other recent distributions such as mageia1 also have make-3.82, and a more generic solution, based on configure&& make&& sudo make install can be used to install make-3.81 (which can be retrieved from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-6.81.tar.gz) in /usr/local/bin (and , according to one's PATH, make 3-81 can be invoked directly or as /usr/local/bin/make)

RedHat Enterprise 5.2

• not all packages are available by default. You can get extra packages here: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/ (for example missing lzo and lzo-devel can be found here).

Optional packages

• Not mandatory but useful to add some extra packages:

yum install glib2-devel lzo2-devel

To compile java jamvm and gnu-classpath:

yum install java-*-openjdk