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).

To make sure Fedora finds libraries in /usr/local/lib folder, add a new entry for ld.conf. For 64-bit platform, this would be

sudo echo /usr/local/lib64 > /etc/ld.conf.so.d/usr_local_lib64.conf

It is also possible to install NFD and ndn-cxx in standard location /usr, by adding --sysconfprefix=/etc during ./waf configure stage.

Installing prerequisite¶

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

On Fedora 23+

sudo dnf install git gcc-c++ 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
sudo ldconfig

Compiling and installing NFD¶

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