Re: Nmap 5 and Zenmap, woes on OS X.iv.xi; warnings and nulls

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:40:25AM -0700, Autymn D. C. wrote:
> ! The last time I did "ls /" I didn't spot a /dev/.  But there it is.
> How can I make folders un-invisible in Finder?  I ran the ch-commands
> at the prompt; will they stick after a restart or do I need a runtime
> script?  If the latter, how do I install ChmodBPF?

Unfortunately you need a startup script. I don't remember exactly how to
install ChmodBPF, but the instructions come with Wireshark. I think you
copy it to /Library/StartupItems and make sure the permissions are set
correctly.

> > > GTK+ 2.14b is installed fine, I think, but I couldn't install PyGTK
> > > 2.14 or its dependends—for a while:
>
> > You are brave to try compiling all of Zenmap's dependencies from
> > source--that's not the recommended procedure because there are so
> > many. Do you know about the installer for Mac OS X?
>
> http://nmap.org/download.html#macosx<
>
> I never saw your download page!  My "kit" was from BrotherSoft.  Your
> installer works, and Zenmap is finally installed and works!  Where are
> scripts/, docs/, nselib/, nmap-services, nmap-protocols, and so on?

They are under /usr/local/share/nmap.

> How does the installer do any differently than the former's
> instructions?  I see now there are no longer pygtk or gobject Python
> modules, and it runs on X11.

All those files are inside the /Applications/Zenmap.app bundle (which is
really just a directory, you can control-click the icon to see what's
inside it). Instead of having an external MacPorts tree, the application
bundle contains its own MacPorts tree.

> > If you're going to install Zenmap from source, don't compile all the
> > dependencies manually. Use a packaging system like MacPorts. That
> > will solve all your problems with finding new enough versions of
> > libraries. With MacPorts, you have to install the packages py25-gtk,
> > py25-sqlite3, and py25-zlib, and then configure Nmap setting the
> > PYTHON environment variable to the path of the Python interpreter
> > installed by MacPorts.<
>
> I had MacPorts one evening, but no longer cared for the new /opt
> paths, so I wiped everything there; also I didn't understand how to
> port...  Did I still need gobject and gettext?

You need lots of dependencies. The MacPorts installation I use to build
the installer, which has nothing that's not needed for Zenmap, has 96
packages installed, including gettext and glib2 (which contains
gobject).

David Fifield

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