Please see if I am Installing the right way

mq15 · 06-22-2009, 01:06 AM

I did not know installation of applications in Linux and learnt it from this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...oblems-397154/

So here is what I did in my terminal:

Quote:

tar -xzf nmap-4.76.tgz
./configure
make
make install

but 'make install' issues this error:

Quote:

[root@localhost nmap-4.76]# make install
/usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/bin /usr/local/share/man/man1 /usr/local/share/nmap
/usr/bin/install -c -c -m 755 nmap /usr/local/bin/nmap
/usr/bin/strip -x /usr/local/bin/nmap
/usr/bin/install -c -c -m 644 docs/nmap.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/
/usr/bin/install -c -c -m 644 docs/nmap.xsl /usr/local/share/nmap/
/usr/bin/install -c -c -m 644 docs/nmap.dtd /usr/local/share/nmap/
/usr/bin/install -c -c -m 644 nmap-services /usr/local/share/nmap/
/usr/bin/install -c -c -m 644 nmap-rpc /usr/local/share/nmap/
/usr/bin/install -c -c -m 644 nmap-os-db /usr/local/share/nmap/
/usr/bin/install -c -c -m 644 nmap-service-probes /usr/local/share/nmap/
/usr/bin/install -c -c -m 644 nmap-protocols /usr/local/share/nmap/
/usr/bin/install -c -c -m 644 nmap-mac-prefixes /usr/local/share/nmap/
/usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/share/nmap/scripts
cp -f scripts/script.db scripts/*.nse /usr/local/share/nmap/scripts
/usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/share/nmap/nselib
cp -f nselib/*.lua /usr/local/share/nmap/nselib
/usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local/bin /usr/local/share/man/man1
cd zenmap && /usr/bin/python setup.py install --prefix "/usr/local"
running install
error: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
make: *** [install-zenmap] Error 1
[root@localhost nmap-4.76]#

Please tell me where am I wrong.
Regards.

jsteel · 06-22-2009, 02:27 AM

Do you have a folder in /usr/lib named python2.5?

Is Python installed? What distribution is this that you are running?

rizwanrafique · 06-22-2009, 03:03 AM

This is one of the least favoured way of installing new applications (at least for beginners). If you let us know your distribution we can give you more information about how to install nmap (or in fact any general application) easily.

colucix · 06-22-2009, 03:10 AM

If you're running this on Fedora 9 as in your previous threads, you can try to install the binary package of nmap and avoid a lot of headache:

Code:

yum install nmap

or look for it in Add/Remove Software.

mq15 · 06-22-2009, 07:34 AM

Thanks all of you...
@jsteel
I don't how if Pythod is installed or not. I don't know even how to get to know if Pythod is installed or not. I am using Fedora9. There exist '/usr/lib/pythod2.5' directory but no '/usr/lib/pythod2.5/config' directory and thus no '/usr/lib/pythod2.5/config/Makefile'. I don't know what to do next.
@rizwanrafique
I am using fedora9. So please DO tell us installation of nmap as well as installation in general.
@colucix
I am happy and thankful to you as you remember me from my previous post. In System>Administration>Add/Remove Software I searched with 'nmap' and 3 files (or whatever should I say) appeared. Selecting and clicking the 'install' button, does nothing. I don't have any idea.

colucix · 06-22-2009, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mq15

I don't how if Pythod is installed or not. I don't know even how to get to know if Pythod is installed or not. I am using Fedora9. There exist '/usr/lib/pythod2.5' directory but no '/usr/lib/pythod2.5/config' directory and thus no '/usr/lib/pythod2.5/config/Makefile'. I don't know what to do next.

This means you have Python installed, but not the python-devel package. Usually when you compile an application from source, and this application depends on some other software, you must have the -devel packages installed. They contain the includes and libraries needed for your compilation and they are not installed by default.

In this case, you have python installed, but you cannot compile another application which uses the python development files until you install the python-devel:

Code:

yum install python-devel

Quote:

I am happy and thankful to you as you remember me from my previous post. In System>Administration>Add/Remove Software I searched with 'nmap' and 3 files (or whatever should I say) appeared. Selecting and clicking the 'install' button, does nothing. I don't have any idea.

This can be a problem related to the Add/Remove Software application. Try the installation from the command line through yum, as suggested in my previous post (take in mind you can install packages as root). If it doesn't work, it should at least tell you why. If you encounter some error, copy/paste it here so we can take a look.

PS - To check if you have a python package installed or not, try the command

Code:

yum list python*

it will give the list of "Installed packages" and of "Available packages". The latter is the list of packages retrieved from the known Fedora repository, that you can easily install as mentioned above.

mq15 · 06-23-2009, 11:47 PM

Thank you very much colucix and all others..