Re: Snort 2.9 installation error

["Jonathan S. Abrams" <jonathansabrams () gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Rony Roy <ronyvillil () gmail com> wrote:

> Starting snort in deamon mode which shoots this error. As a work around i
> copied the snort file from /sbin to  /local/bin/  and started the snort
> again and this time snort started successfully..... :)   but i am not sure
> whether this a proper way of doing,  please suggest.
>
>  snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -D -i eth1
>
> Also please let me know if you have any method to install snort 2.9.1.2 on
> RHEL4.  I have tried and created rpm, but it didn't get installed because
> of below error,
>
> [root@snrt i386]# rpm -ivh snort-2.9.1.2-1.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libpcap.so.1 is needed by snort-2.9.1.2-1.i386
>         libsfbpf.so.0 is needed by snort-2.9.1.2-1.i386

It looks like you need to install libpcap, available at
http://www.tcpdump.org/#latest-release.

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