I wanted to install xfd, and while it looks like it was included in xorg-x11-apps, that package is gone: Commit - rpms/xorg-x11-apps - e4469df65397004ab19a898ca350195f017891a2 - src.fedoraproject.org
Since also dnf provides '*/xfd' doesn’t seem to find this tool. I think I have to compile it myself. But I’d like to install it as package afterwards.
What is the easiest way to accomplish this? For debian checkinstall exists, is there a similar easy-to-use solution for fedora? Thank you
It looks like that package was last built for Fedora Linux 34.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xfd/tree/f34
You should be able to clone that and use rpmbuild to compile it as a rpm. Then you could install it as a package on your system with dnf or rpm.
Thank you, in this case I seem to be lucky then. But what about software that has no .spec file yet? Is there a simple checkinstall-like way to get a .rpm out of an arbitrary build-command?
I don’t know of any way/software to auto-generate a .spec file. But I’m not a packager. You might find people more knowledgeable about such things in Feodra’s “devel” Matrix channel.