prereq-fedora.md

aliBuild prerequisites for Fedora 27

We support on a best-effort basis recent versions of Fedora as development platform. Currently supported version is Fedora 27. Other versions (older or newer) are to be considered not supported.

{% callout "Fedora is bleeding-edge" %} Note that in general it is not so easy to support a distribution like Fedora due to its "bleeding edge" nature. Every new version tends to adopt new standards and packages very easily, requiring adjustments in our software chain. Such adjustments are, as per our policy, are performed on a best-effort basis.

If you are a Fedora user, let us remind you once again that any version different than Fedora 27 is not supported at the moment. You might want to wait until we update our software chain and documentation before upgrading to a newer Fedora version. If you are impatient, you might want to use Docker with a supported OS (such as CentOS 7) as your development environment. {% endcallout %}

Fedora Docker image

You can use Docker to run a Fedora environment even if your OS is different. Check out the official Fedora images. The image corresponding to a base Fedora 27 installation is fedora:27.

Install or upgrade required packages

Install packages (one long line, just copy and paste it), as root user:

dnf install -y git python mysql-devel curl curl-devel python python-devel python-pip bzip2 bzip2-devel autoconf automake texinfo gettext gettext-devel libtool freetype freetype-devel libpng libpng-devel sqlite sqlite-devel ncurses-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libX11-devel libXpm-devel libXext-devel libXft-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel motif motif-devel kernel-devel pciutils-devel kmod-devel bison flex perl-ExtUtils-Embed environment-modules which gcc-gfortran gcc-c++ swig rsync

Note: at the time of writing (February 2018), our current software does not support OpenSSL 1.1, therefore it is necessary to install the following two compatibility packages with the --allowerasing option:

dnf install compat-openssl10-devel compat-openssl10 --allowerasing

Now get some Python dependencies (again as root user):

pip install matplotlib numpy certifi ipython==5.1.0 ipywidgets ipykernel notebook metakernel pyyaml

You are now ready for installing aliBuild and start building ALICE software