Re: Zenmap from tarball on Mac OS X?

[Daniel Johnson <daniel () daniel-johnson org>]

On Dec 7, 2007, at 11:34 PM, Fyodor wrote:

> Hi everyone.  One of the many big improvements in Nmap 4.50 is the
> Zenmap GUI.  Among its advanages over NmapFE is portability.  I've
> been testing Zenmap on Linux and Windows, but I don't have an OS X box
> yet.  It is supposed to work though.  In fact, Adriano did much of his
> Umit development on a Mac.
>
> At some point I would like to make a .app package for Nmap/Zenmap on
> Mac which is as comprehensive and easy to use as the Nmap Win32
> installer.  But that won't be done in time for the 4.50 release.  So
> for now people need to work from the tarball or svn.  You presumably
> need to install various dependencies which don't come with OS X.  I
> don't know if it includes Python, PyGTK, etc.

10.3 and 10.4 come with Python 2.3 and 10.5 comes with 2.3 and 2.5. No  
version of Mac OS X comes with PyGTK, GTK+, GLIB or any of the other  
dependencies. Installing them manually is a real PITA. It's probably  
best to use Fink or MacPorts to install the dependencies.

> Can someone here who has Zenmap working on their Mac send to this list
> step-by-step instructions for installing and running Nmap and Zenmap,
> starting with a tarball such as nmap-4.49RC4.tar.bz2?  I would like to
> link to and/or summarize the instructions on the Nmap download page
> and install guide.  Many Mac users will thank you.

I don't really have manual build instructions since I use Fink, but I  
will have a Fink nmap package ready to go when 4.50 is released an I  
intend to keep it up to date. Note that the latest version will  
require using Fink's unstable tree, which isn't a big deal since  
unstable is usually more stable than stable. :) Its page will be here: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/nmap

Until then, this package will build 4.49RC5: 
http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/fink/experimental/danielj/nmap.info?revision=1.3
Copying this to /sw/fink/10.4/local/main/finkinfo/net then running  
'fink install nmap' will build and install it.

> Also, if someone wants to figure out how to create an Nmap/Zenmap
> .app, that would be great.  Maybe it could be offered for Nmap 4.51!
> We have a Python packaging system which is supposed to make the
> creation of this sort of thing easy.

This won't be easy since Mac OS X is lacking many required  
dependencies. :(

Daniel

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