Fedora 11 is a GNU/Linux distribution of the RedHat family, based on RPM packages, using the Gnome desktop by default.
Install some dependencies from Fedora packages using the graphic tool
From the System menu, run Administration|Software Update; you will be prompted for the root password. Install the proposed updates, if any. If the system asks you to logout or reboot the system after the update (for example when you update the kernel), do so.
Exit the Software Update tool, if needed.
Enter the graphic package tool in System|Administration|Add/Remove software. Then install the most recent version of the following packages (use the Find box, then mark the checkbox for each package you need; at the end push Apply and then confirm by pushing Install and entering the root password). The system will also automatically install the package dependencies.
gcc gcc-c++ bzr xorg-x11-server-Xephyr libglade2-devel ncurses-devel uml_utilities bridge-utils graphviz make gettext-devel gnome-terminal xterm autoconf automake libtool libtool-ltdl-devel subversion subversion-devel wget
It is possible that you already have some of them.
You can exit the package tool after the installation completes.
Manually install some other dependencies
Run the rest of the installation as the root user. Open a terminal and enter:
su
Enter the root password.
Now make a temporary directory:
mkdir ~/tmp || true
Install VDE from sources:
cd ~/tmp svn co https://vde.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vde/trunk/vde-2 vde_svn cd vde_svn mkdir m4 || true # This was needed the last time I tried autoreconf -fi ./configure && make && make install
Fedora distributes some OCaml packages, but not everything we need. Rather than filling the holes, let's just ignore packages and compile everything OCaml-related from sources.
Download, compile and install OCaml:
cd ~/tmp wget http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-3.11/ocaml-3.11.0.tar.bz2 tar xfvj ocaml-3.11.0.tar.bz2 cd ocaml-3.11.0 ./configure && make world.opt && make install && make installopt cd /usr/local/include ln -s ~/tmp/ocaml-3.11.0/byterun caml
Download, compile and install lablgtk2:
cd ~/tmp wget http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soft/olabl/dist/lablgtk-2.12.0.tar.gz tar xfvz lablgtk-2.12.0.tar.gz cd lablgtk-2.12.0 ./configure --with-threads=yes --with-glade && make && make opt && make install
Download, compile and install Marionnet
Download, compile and install the bleeding-edge version of ocamlbricks:
cd ~/tmp bzr get --verbose lp:ocamlbricks/0.90.x ocamlbricks cd ocamlbricks make && make install
Download, compile and install the bleeding-edge version of marionnet:
cd ~/tmp bzr get --verbose lp:marionnet/0.90.x marionnet cd marionnet make && make install
Download and install virtual machine (and router) filesystems; you will need some free disk space for this step:
cd /usr/local/share/marionnet/ wget http://www.marionnet.org/download/snapshots/stuff/filesystems-most-recent.tar.bz2 tar xfv filesystems-most-recent.tar.bz2 rm -f filesystems-most-recent.tar.bz2
Download and install UML kernels:
cd /usr/local/share/marionnet/ wget http://www.marionnet.org/download/snapshots/stuff/uml-kernel-binaries-most-recent.tar.bz2 tar xfv uml-kernel-binaries-most-recent.tar.bz2 rm -f uml-kernel-binaries-most-recent.tar.bz2
Post-installation setup
Marionnet will work after the steps above, but there are a couple of optional features which need some system configuration. We have a whole page about Marionnet post-installation setup.