Installation from source RPM package
Source packages for specfe are also available. These are tested on a Fedora Core system. They may also work on other linux distributions.
1.
Download the source package (replace <xxx> by the latest version):
wget http://www.bessrc.aps.anl.gov/downloadDocs/specfe/specfe-<xxx>.src.rpm
2.
Set up the Fedora RPM build environment
fedora-buildrpmtree
3.
Build the package:
rpmbuild --rebuild specfe-<xxx>.src.rpm
Processing files: specfe-debuginfo-1.5.16-1
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/specfe-1.5.16-1-root
Wrote: /home/jennings/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/specfe-1.5.16-1.i386.rpm
Wrote: /home/jennings/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/specfe-debuginfo-1.5.16-1.i386.rpm
Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.58143
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/jennings/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd specfe-1.5.16
+ rm -rf /var/tmp/specfe-1.5.16-1-root
+ exit 0
Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.58143
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/jennings/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf specfe-1.5.16
+ exit 0
4.
Install the package:
sudo rpm -Uvh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386/specfe-<xxx>.i386.rpm
5.
Try to run the package:
cd <somewhere>
specfe
