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### Building a .rpm
-You don't need to install the build dependencies, as the script will use `dnf` to install them for you.
+Build dependencies are automatically installed using `dnf`, but you do need the `rpmdevtools` package (on Fedora)
+in order to fetch sources and setup your tree.
```
+cd ~
+# setup your ~/rpmbuild directory, required for rpmbuild to work.
+rpmdev-setuptree
+# note: submodules are not needed here, as the spec file will download the tarball instead
git clone https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC.git
-cd packages/rpm
-sudo dnf builddep ./polymec.spec
-rpmbuild -bb ./polymec.spec
+cd PolyMC/packages/rpm
+# install build dependencies
+sudo dnf builddep polymc.spec
+# download build sources
+spectool -g -R polymc.spec
+# now build!
+rpmbuild -bb polymc.spec
```
-The path to the rpm packages will be printed at the end of building
+The path to the rpm packages will be printed when the build is complete.
### Building from command line
You need a source folder, a build folder and an install folder.