How to Install Fossil on Fedora Server Latest

This tutorial will guide you through the steps of installing Fossil, a distributed source control management system, on the latest version of Fedora Server. Before starting the installation process, make sure you have administrative privileges on your system.

Step 1: Install Required Dependencies

Fossil requires a few dependencies to be installed on your system before it can be installed. Open a terminal window and run the following command:

sudo dnf install openssl-devel sqlite-devel tk-devel

This will install the required packages to build Fossil from the source code.

Step 2: Download Fossil

Download the latest Fossil release from the official website, http://www.fossil-scm.org/. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest version is fossil-2.16.tar.gz.

Open a terminal window, navigate to the directory where you downloaded the Fossil source code and extract the archive by running the following command:

tar xfvz fossil-2.16.tar.gz

This will extract the Fossil source code to a new directory named "fossil-2.16".

Step 3: Build Fossil

To build Fossil, navigate to the extracted directory and run the following commands:

cd fossil-2.16
make

This will compile the Fossil source code and produce an executable file named "fossil". If the build process completes successfully, you can now install Fossil.

Step 4: Install Fossil

To install Fossil, run the following command:

sudo make install

This will install Fossil on your system. You can verify the installation by running the following command:

fossil version

This will display the version of Fossil installed on your system.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Fossil on your Fedora Server. You can now use Fossil to manage your source code and collaborate with your team.