Cannot find .rpm binaries for fedora

[Zusemat]

This page: https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html
sends me to this page: https://github.com/facebook/watchman/releases/tag/v2024.11.25.00
to install the latest prebuilt .rpm package. It is nowhere to be found.

[iamoeg]

I concur: it's a bit confusing that the project's documentation mentions the existence of "Linux builds on recent Ubuntu and Fedora releases" (source: project's README) and even give install instructions for a packaged release which is nowhere to be found! Other users have raised issues related to setup on Linux as well (see #1222, #1244), but it's not clear if the maintainers have any remedies planned...

In the meantime, I suggest you try building from source (preferably from the latest release snapshot), following the instructions at: https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install#-building-from-source. The build process will take quite some time even on a beefy machine and print scary warning messages on the terminal in the process, but if everything is okay, the resulting binaries will be located in the built/ directory. You could move these to an appropriate directory that's in your $PATH as suggested here: https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install#prebuilt-binaries-2.

Sure, it's not the best setup, but it worked for me and I hope it will for you too. Also, be aware that running watchman --version always yields 0.0.0 (cf. #1206) when the program is built from source.

Good luck!

[rakotomandimby]

@iamoeg , the latest release snapshot doesnt handle openssl v3 correctly

[samuel-andres]

any news on this?

[eithan1231]

Thats rather unfortunate that it requires you to build from source for Linux, in spite of the documentation suggesting otherwise. Would be great to have debian, and fedora builds with releases!

[senekor]

The documentation is still misleading. I understand that providing linux binaries and packages takes work, but deleting misleading parts of the docs should be a quick fix.