Firestarter is conveniently available in RPM package format for RPM enabled Linux distributions like Red Hat, Fedora Core and Mandrake.
Once you have downloaded the Firestarter RPM, open a terminal and change to the directory where you downloaded the RPM to. Type the following commands shown in bold to install the package:
Barring any unresolved dependencies or other problems, Firestarter should now be installed. Alternatively you can use a graphical package manager like GnoRPM to install the package provided your distribution comes with such software.
Firestarter is maintained in Debian and can be downloaded and installed using the apt-get tool by simply typing "apt-get install firestarter".
Firestarter is fully supported in the Gentoo distribution by the Portage system. Simply run "emerge firestarter" to install the program.
Unpack the tarball and move into the newly created directory:
Run the configure script. There is no need to give any parameters to the script, but there are a lot of options available (type ./configure --help for a full list of options):
With the option passed to the configure script in the example, Firestarter will store the configuration files in /etc/firestarter. By default Firestarter will be installed into the /usr/local tree, you can override this by setting the prefix option.
If the configure stage completed without problem you should now be able to compile and install the program:
The make install stage is optional. You can run Firestarter directly from the src subdirectory if you want.
If are using the Red Hat or Mandrake distributions and want to take advantage of the console-helper based interactive root password prompting in GNOME, execute "./postinstall". Postinstall will also install a system init script into /etc/init.d.
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