Install requirements

On fedora

s dnf install bison-devel flex-devel libmnl-devel libnftnl-devel readline-devel gmp-devel bison flex docbook2X docbook-utils

On ubuntu

Alternatively you can build required librairies

see https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Building_and_installing_nftables_from_sources

Prepare

./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/ --datarootdir=/usr/share

Compile and install

make make install