RPM for nethogs in openSUSE

Nethogs is a 'top' for network connections. It seems, RPMs are no longer supported(At least homepage links for RPM don't work). I had some troubles making an RPM for in in openSUSE. So I'd share a workaround for it.

Download lastest(for now) release tarball and uncompress it:

$ cd /tmp && wget 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/nethogs/files/nethogs/0.7/nethogs-0.7.0.tar.gz/download'
$ tar -xzvf nethogs-0.7.0.tar.gz

Now make

$ cd nethogs
$ make

You may try running

$ sudo checkinstall -R

but if you are at openSUSE box as me, you'd probably get error that says you didn't specify filename in
'install -d -m 755'... If so, edit ./Makefile:
1) find line:

sbin  := $(DESTDIR)/sbin

2) append the folliwing line after that:

bin  := $(DESTDIR)/bin

That's it! Yoy may now run

$ sudo checkinstall -R 

and follow checkinstall instuctions. Everything should be OK now.

Good luck.

UPDATE
You might have to install checkinstall:

$ sudo zipper in checkinstall

Create RPM from source in openSUSE easily. Checkinstall

Being new to openSUSE, I searched for a took "like" checkinstall in Debian. But
openSUSE already has it! :) I'll show how to use it.

Firstly, install it:

$ sudo zypper in checkinstall

Now the whole process mainly looks like the following.

$ ./configure && make
######################################################################
# or 
# qmake 
# or whatever appopriate before doing make install.
######################################################################
$ sudo /usr/sbin/checkinstall
######################################################################
# ... checkinstall advices some settings
######################################################################
$ rpm -i /path/to/generated/rpm

Now let's build an RPM for KeePassX password manager:

$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir keepasx
$ cd keepasx
$ svn co https://keepassx.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/keepassx/trunk
$ cd trunk
$ qmake

######################################################################
# To install qmake:
# $ sudo zypper in libqt4-devel
######################################################################
$ sudo /usr/sbin/checkinstall
######################################################################
# Now I had some problems with uncreated directories... Had to issue:
# $ sudo mkdir /usr/share/keepassx /usr/share/mimelnk
# and repeat 
# $ sudo /usr/sbin/checkinstall
######################################################################

Now checkinstall should generate file like

$ /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/keepassx-0.4.3-1.x86_64.rpm

So may now install the RPM normally:

$ sudo rpm -i /usr/src/packages/RPMS/x86_64/keepassx-0.4.3-1.x86_64.rpm