2.1. RPM-based distributions (Red Hat, Fedora, OpenSUSE and others)

Using pre-built binary RPMs

You need to download and install two RPMs:

• Example: libfwbuilder-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm

• Example: fwbuilder-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm

To satisfy dependencies, you need the following packages installed on your system:

• libxml2 v2.4.10 or newer

• libxslt v1.0.7 o newer

• ucd-snmp or net-snmp

• QT 4.3.x, 4.4.x Fwbuilder depends on QT 4.3 or 4.4, it will not work with 4.2

Pre-built binary RPMs for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) and CentOS 5.2

These distributions do not come with QT4 and third-party binary RPMs of QT v4.3.x and 4.4.x are hard to come by. We distribute binary RPMs of Firewall Builder 3.0 statically linked with QT 4.4.1 for these distributions. These RPMs are posted in the downloads area on the SourceForge project site. These RPMs have the same standard names: libfwbuilder-3.0.0-1.i386.el5.rpm and fwbuilder-3.0.0-1.i386.el5.rpm, they just have no dependency on QT RPMs.

If fwbuilder statically linked with QT crashes on start on your CentOS system, check if you have the following font packages installed: bitmap-fonts or bitstream-vera-fonts. Either one should make fwbuilder work (but we are told bitstream-vera fonts look better). See bug report #2595205 on SourceForge for more details.

To install Firewall Builder, go to your download directory and run the following command (replace the filenames with the names of the files you actually downloaded:

rpm -i libfwbuilder-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm fwbuilder-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm