Installing NFD on Fedora¶

The trick in compiling and installing NFD and the library on Fedora 20 is that Fedora by default is configured to look for libraries only in /usr/lib and for binaries only in /usr/bin (as opposed to also /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin as additional options).

NFD and ndn-cxx can be either installed into /usr (as shown below). It is also possible to install NFD and ndn-cxx in a custom location. However, in this case PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables need to be adjusted to proper values.

Installing prerequisite¶

sudo yum install git gcc-g++ openssl-devel sqlite-devel cryptopp-devel boost-devel libpcap-devel

On Fedora 23+

sudo dnf install git gcc-g++ openssl-devel sqlite-devel cryptopp-devel boost-devel libpcap-devel

Compiling and installing ndn-cxx library¶

git clone git://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx
cd ndn-cxx
./waf configure
sudo ./waf install --prefix=/usr --sysconfprefix=/etc
sudo ldconfig

Compiling and installing NFD¶

git clone git://github.com/named-data/NFD
cd NFD
./waf configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfprefix=/etc
sudo ./waf install