FPM (Effing Package Manager) is a tool that helps in packaging software into native packages such as RPM and DEB. FPM is especially useful when you need to package software that is not available in your distribution's package repositories.
This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install FPM on Fedora CoreOS Latest.
To follow along with the steps in this tutorial, you will need:
Before installing FPM, you need to install some dependencies. Run the following command to install the necessary dependencies:
$ sudo dnf install -y gcc make rpm-build ruby ruby-devel rubygems
This command installs the following packages:
With the dependencies installed, you can now proceed to install FPM. Run the following command to install FPM:
$ sudo gem install fpm
This command installs the latest version of FPM. After the installation is complete, you can verify that FPM is installed by running the following command:
$ fpm --version
This should output the version of FPM that you have installed.
To test that FPM is working as expected, you can create a package for a simple application such as Nginx. Run the following commands:
$ mkdir nginx
$ cd nginx
$ echo "Hello, World!" > index.html
$ sudo fpm -s dir -t rpm -a all -n "nginx" -v 1.0 -C . .
These commands create a package for the Nginx web server containing a simple "Hello, World!" HTML file. The package is saved in the current directory as an RPM file.
You have successfully installed FPM on your Fedora CoreOS Latest machine. You can now use FPM to create native packages for software that is not available in your distribution's repositories.
To learn more about FPM and how to use it, check out the official FPM documentation at https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm.
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