[ale] Install help

[Mark Wright]

Hi Chris,

I ran the perl command you suggested and after a few minutes the  
message "you appear to lack the pcap(3) library'  came up.  The  
message continued to say that if it installed in a non-standard  
location to try setting the LIBS and INC values on the command line  
or install using a package system or source.  I searched for pcap in  
the package manager on Ubuntu but get no hits.   There is a  
libpcap0.8-dev that is not installed.

Does Ubuntu already have pcap libraries installed in a non-standard  
place?  Does Synaptic have these packages in the normal repositories?  
( I am searching in all the 5.10 binary, source, Multiverse and  
Universe)  Do I need to ad a repository or should I download source  
from www.tcpdump.org?

Thanks,
Mark


On Jun 1, 2006, at 9:41 PM, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> Perl Modules
>
> perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Pcap'
>
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:34 -0400, Mark Wright wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I consider myself a real geek but Linux sometimes makes me feel like
>> a n00b winders luser all because I don't write my own programs.  I
>> understand programming a bit, Fortran in College,  and I have done
>> extensive script writing in the past but nothing humbles me like the
>> 'make install --Not OK' loop I get into sometimes.  I have installed
>> a dozen or so programs successfully but this one has been going bad
>> from the start.
>>
>> I am trying to install Aimsniff.  (www.aimsniff.com)
>>
>> In the Readme the author says bluntly he doesn't support windows
>> because he only wants serious responsible users.  He states that real
>> network professionals know 'nix.  I like his attitude.
>>
>> He has provided bare bones install instructions.  I am using Ubuntu
>> 5.10.  He lists dependancies but they do not look like programs or
>> libraries to me so I don't know how to check for them.
>>
>> Here is the list of the dependancies.
>>
>> Requires Samba to perform SMB lookup features.
>> Requires the following perl modules:
>> Net::Pcap;
>> NetPacket::Ethernet qw(:strip);
>> NetPacket::IP qw(:strip);
>> NetPacket::TCP;
>> NetPacket::UDP;
>> DBI;
>> Unicode::String qw(utf8 latin1 utf16);
>> Proc::Daemon;
>> Proc::Simple;
>> FileHandle;
>> Unix::Syslog;
>> GDBM_File;
>>
>> I installed smb from Ubuntu's wonderful package manager.  In the FAQ
>> the Aimsniff author wrote a script to install the needed Perl pieces
>> by using CPAN but he says that Net::Pcap should be installed from
>> source.  When I run the script all the 'makes' that it tries to do  
>> fail.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to get these dependancies satisfied and move
>> forward?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
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