Building Addon - Howto

IPFire is expandable by using Pakfire, its built-in paket-management-systen. There are some useful Addons that can be installed this way, but for some cases, you need to create your own. The following instruction shows exemplary how to build an homegrown Addon ” sslh ”.

To build an Addon for IPFire, you need to have a build-system up and running. Instructions for this can be found here (Building-Howto). Further, you of course need the sourcecode of the Addon you would like to build.

The build-process for Linux-Software is quite similar each time:

• Unpack your tarball/archive: “tar xvfz <yourfile>.tar.gz” (or whatever fits your needs)
• Change the directory to the source-dir: “cd <yourfile>”
• Run the configuration-script: ”./configure”.
• Compile: “make”.
• Install: “make install” (you need to run this command as root)

Change your path to the IPFire build-sources. For IPFire 2.x it is called ipfire-2.x.

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