For SNORT 2.8.3.2 (STABLE) you will have to do the commands
on this site
http://www.snort.org/got_source/source.html
cvs -d : ......... etc. .. login > > <Enter> will do as password.
and next command
cvs -d : ......... etc. , providing 'snort/' in /home/kamrakaran/
The full command cannot be shown here, it will print a 'smiley'
instead of a colon ( : ) like this :
cvs -d
server:anonymous@cvs.snort.org:/cvsroot login
cvs -d
server:anonymous@cvs.snort.org:/cvsroot co -r SNORT_v2_8_3_2 snort
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The package 'subversion' is usually required to do 'cvs'
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