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RPM – How to Build RPM Package

This article represents tips to build RPM package using rpmbuild command. Please feel free to comment/suggest if I missed to mention one or more important points. Also, sorry for the typos.

Following are the key points described later in this article:

Install RPMBuild Package
Instructions to Create RPMs

Install RPMBuild Package

Make sure that rpmbuild exists. Type rpmbuild in command line and confirm that usage text appears.
In case, rpmbuild does not exists, download it using command, “yum -y install rpm-build”

Instructions to Create RPMs

Create a top level folder such as “rpmbuild” within home directory.
Go to rpmbuild folder using command such as “cd rpmbuild”
Create following folder within rpmbuild folder:
- BUILD
- BUILDROOT
- RPMS
- SOURCES
- SPECS
- SRPMS
Create a SPEC file with extension as *.spec under folder SPECS

Execute following command from within rpmbuild folder:

rpmbuild --define "_topdir $(pwd)" --define "version 1.0" --define "release 0" -v -bb "$(pwd)/SPECS/"

Once the command, rpmbuild, results into success, one would find file with extension *.rpm within RPMS/noarch. One could then install the RPM package using commands such as following:

rpm -ivh <rpm_name>

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I have been recently working in the area of Data analytics including Data Science and Machine Learning / Deep Learning. I am also passionate about different technologies including programming languages such as Java/JEE, Javascript, Python, R, Julia, etc, and technologies such as Blockchain, mobile computing, cloud-native technologies, application security, cloud computing platforms, big data, etc. I would love to connect with you on Linkedin. Check out my latest book titled as First Principles Thinking: Building winning products using first principles thinking.