How to install a Package

[barney34]

Really new at this. I have linux 7.0 installed and the operating system is working fine. I have down loaded Nmap and dsniff in the format of tar.gz and have unzipped them but I have no idea how to install them. Please if someone could walk me through this process. Thank you :confused:

[MBMarduk]

Take a look at the "Installing From Source" NHF...(Just click on "NHF" on top of your screen)

Oh, and you're prolly running RED HAT 7.0 or SuSE 7.0 or SLACKWARE 7.0 or <some distro> 7.0

"LINUX" is currently 2.x.x (type "uname -r" in a console)

[ansivirus]

Are these source? or are they precompiled binaries? i dunno is there a README? if it is source try

./configure
make
make test
make install <as root>
make clean

[barney34]

When I unzip the I have a bunch of .c files and some .8 and some .h. Maybe I need to learn what souce or otherwise code is also. I am learning every minute. When I try ./configure in the directory where I unziped it says error: Berkely DB with 1.85 compatibility not found I have 2.2.16-22 version.

[MBMarduk]

OH ****!!!!

Sorry, I forgot to tell you, the GCC (the compiler) that Red Crap shipped in 7.0 IS BROKEN! It was beta/alpha software.

Ask anyone, this is truly **** coming from the RH people...They also shipped the (old but nonetheless) good one but renamed it KGCC (ver. 2.95 AFAIK).

[MBMarduk]

Here's the article: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-14-002-21-NW-RH-SW

I looked it up for ya...