Time for action – SUSE: from tarball to RPMs

Building RPMs for FreeRADIUS on SLES takes a little more effort compared to CentOS or Ubuntu.

Adding an OpenSUSE repository

To build FreeRADIUS from source requires various development libraries. The standard SLES repositories do not include them all, even when using the SDK DVDs that are part of SLES. We therefore need to add the OpenSUSE repository. This will satisfy all the development library requirements.

  1. Locate your nearest OpenSUSE mirror from the following URL:

    http://mirrors.opensuse.org/

  2. Start YAST as the root user.
  3. Select Software | Software Repositories and then select Add to add a repository.
  4. Add the OpenSUSE mirror that you chose at the start. The URL for my nearest OpenSUSE 11.3 is the following: ...

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