Creating RPM (continued) Providing you have all the tools to generate an RPM, it is actually very easy to create one. After issuing the configure command above, one just needs to issue the following command: make rpm Or you can build it from the source RPM (SRPM). The command to do this under root on a Fedora/RedHat/CentOS/Scientific Linux are: rpm -Uvh afd-1.4.5-0.3.beta.el6.src.rpm rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/afd.spec