Installing Bazel in Fedora

Ref https://bazel.build/install/compile-source#bootstrap-bazel.

Download from source

Download links are available at https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases.

Note: It requires downloading the distribution artifacts (dist), otherwise fails to find PROTOC :thinking_face:. More information in https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/3801.

Dependencies

Fedora doesn’t have build-essential, but it has a concept for groups of packets, the following worked:

sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"

sudo dnf install java-latest-openjdk java-latest-openjdk-devel

Self-contained binary

This can be moved/copied to any place, e.g. cp output/bazel /usr/bin/bazel