Hiya Everyone

Im trying to Install AirSnort for a Univeristy Project

After i compile the source code this happens:

When i come to run the command "make", i get the following error:

make: *** No Targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

and when i come to run the command "make install" i get the following error:

make: *** No rule to make argert "install". Stop

Im running Suse 10.1

Kernel Verion:

2.6.16.21-0.25-smp

Any help would be great

Thanks

Kai

Are you running ./configure first, this normally creates a make file

try

could also try

if you have checkinstall installed on your system which i would strongly advise if you build alot from source. It creates a package specific to your distribution ( your case a .rpm file) which can be easily install and makes uninstalling easy too.

I Also forgot to add:

When i run "make --version"

i get the following:

GNU Make 3.80
Copyright (c) 2002 Free Software Foundation inc
This is free software... ect ect


Thanks

Kai

Isn't there an airsnort package available via the YaST installer?

Yes im Running ./configure first, and its building the source code

I had alook at the YaSt installer to check the DVD disc, and no there is no AirSnort Package

Thanks

Kai

Where did you get airsnort - what version?

I Got airsnort from:

http://airsnort.shmoo.com/

Thanks

Kai

I just built it successfully. Strange. Here was my procedure in case it helps:

downloaded file airsnort-0.2.7e.tar.gz. Download came courtesy of sourceforge. Thanks again sf!

un-tared file with:
It created a directory named "airsnort-0.2.7e". Change to directory:
Run configure:
seemed to run OK. Run make:
Failed. Complains about pcap. Install libpcap-dev. Note this command/package name is ubuntu specific:
Try to make again:
It works. I chose not to make install, but use checkinstall, which builds a package first and then installs that. It makes un-installation much easier:
Done.

Are there any errors in the ./configure?
It will not make the Makefile unless everything it checks on is there.

Brian

Hi there

no it doesn't throw an error in ./configure

thanks

Kai

Hi there

I forgot to ask,

What is libpcap-dev?

I have only been using Linux for a week, so im still a newbie

thanks

kai

It's the name of the package on the Ubuntu distribution which provides the development version of the pcap (packet capture) library. airsnort need this to be installed before it will build. Most distros separate libraries into runtime and development packages. The runtime provides the /usr/lib/... files (like DLLs under windows), and the -dev package provides the /usr/include/.../*.h files needed by the compiler to build programs which use the library.

Hey Everyone

When i run ./configure, i do get an error, its the following:

checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0... Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
configure: error: Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.



And i havn't got a clue what that means :-(

I had alook in YaSt and it appears that gtk and gtk2 are both installed,

any idea's?

Thanks

Kai

It means that the program you are trying to build depends on some software which isn't installed. In this case gtk+-2.0.

You probably do have the runtime version of this package installed, but probably not the development version (needed to compile programs which use the library). Open up YaST and install the version of this package which has -devel on the end of the name.

When building a program, you should read the README and INSTALL files. These will usually list such dependencies. In the case of airsnort, you need gtk and libpcap, as well as some kernel dependencies which I hope SuSE will handle OK.

Hi there

ok, Ive managed to make the file

ive also done a "make install"

thanks for your help on that.


This might sound a bit noobish, but this is the first program i have made in Linux, how do i run it ? lol

thanks

Kai