error in installing snort

saurabh_gupta99 · 04-19-2014, 05:46 AM

hi guys i m trying to install snort and getting some errors. i have used snort-2.9.3.1-1.F16.i386.rpm package. i enetred "rpm --install snort-2.9.3.1-1.F16.i386.rpm " as a command and its showing

error: Failed dependencies:
libdnet.so.1 is needed by snort-1:2.9.3.1-1.i386
libsfbpf.s0.0 is needed by snort-1:2.9.3.1-1.i386

jdkaye · 04-19-2014, 06:00 AM

It looks like you need to install the libdnet-dev and the libdaq-dev packages (or whatever you call them in your distro).
jdk

saurabh_gupta99 · 04-19-2014, 07:35 AM

i have already installed these packages
have used libdnet-1.11 and daq-2.0.2

knudfl · 04-19-2014, 09:01 AM

# 1 : snort-2.9.3.1-1.F16.i386.rpm is not an original Fedora package.

'libdnet.so.1' is provided by the Fedora 16 package libdnet-1.12-7.fc15.i686.rpm

'libsfbpf.so.0' : No Fedora package.
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/2/simple/2

? Which OS are you using ? ?

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saurabh_gupta99 · 04-19-2014, 09:09 AM

linux redhat

saurabh_gupta99 · 04-19-2014, 09:14 AM

then which package of snort should i use?

knudfl · 04-19-2014, 10:25 AM

# 5 .

Please show the outputs from the commands :
a) $ uname -m
b) $ cat /etc/redhat-release

EL 6 packages https://www.snort.org/snort-downloads
... but no "i686".

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jdkaye · 04-19-2014, 10:37 AM

If you're using RHEL why not just contact their Support? After all, you're paying for it, right? If you're not paying for it maybe you should be using CentOS if you want to add packages.
jdk

saurabh_gupta99 · 04-19-2014, 11:48 AM

uname -m
output-
i686

cat /etc/redhat-release
output-
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)

TB0ne · 04-20-2014, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by saurabh_gupta99

uname -m
output-
i686

cat /etc/redhat-release
output-
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)

...and we're back to "Why haven't you called Red Hat support, since you're PAYING FOR IT?" Did you try reading the Snort documentation, which tells you which packages to install? There is a complete setup guide:
http://www.snort.org/docs

It's for CentOS 6, but should work for RHEL6...IF YOU PAY FOR IT, since you won't have access to the online repositories/packages otherwise. It tells you the package names, and how to get things going. Did you try to look this up?