On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 01:42:21PM -0800, Edward Gibbs wrote:
> Just installed Linux (Apollo build) and the configure script fails.
> Everything passes except when it checks for net/bpf.h which doesn't seem to
> exist. Anyone have any ideas?
You have to install libpcap, as per step #2 below.
--gilbert
Installation Checklist
======================
[ ] 0. This is alpha software. Beware.
[ ] 1. Make sure you have GTK+ installed. Try running 'gtk-config
--version'. If you need to install/reinstall GTK, you can find
it at
http://www.gtk.org .
Ethereal should work with the latest stable (1.0.x) version, as
well as the development (1.1.x) versions.
[ ] 2. Make sure you have libpcap installed. The latest version can be
found at
ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov .
Make sure you install the headers ('make install-incl') when you
install the library.
If you installed libpcap from a binary package, you may have to
install a "development" package; for example, there's
apparently a "libpcap0" Debian package, but it just includes a
shared library, a copyright notice, changelog files, and a
README file - you also need to install a "libpcap-dev" package
to get header files, a non-shared library, and the man page.
Similarly, Red Hat users will need to install a "libpcap-devel"
.rpm to go along with the "libpcap" .rpm.
[ ] 3. Run './configure' in the Ethereal distribution directory.
Running './configure --help' displays a list of options.
The file 'INSTALL.configure' contains general instructions for
using 'configure' and 'make'.
Ethereal installs a support file (manuf) in /usr/local/etc by
default. You can change this location with the --sysconfdir
option.
[ ] 4. Run 'make'. Hopefully, you won't run into any problems.
[ ] 5. Run './ethereal', and make sure things are working. You must
have root privileges in order to capture live data.
[ ] 6. Run 'make install'. If you wish to install the man page, run
'make install-man'. You're done.
