Re: Snort Installation?

[Daniel Curry <dcurry () corio com>]

Erek,
  Thank you for the suggestion. I was able to
rol my own and it works.


Erek Adams wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Daniel Curry wrote:
>
> > I am trying to install snort on two new boxes. My
> > question is why I am unable to find libmysqlclient.so.10?
> >  I do have LIB_LIBRARY set up to include, but no luck.
> >
> >
> >
> > rpm -ivh snort-mysql-1.8.7-1snort.i386.rpm
> > error: failed dependencies:
> >         libmysqlclient.so.10   is needed by snort-mysql-1.8.7-1snort
> >
> > /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10
> >
> >
> >  0 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           24 Sep  6 15:09
> > /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10 -> libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0
> >
> > 140 -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       137944 Sep  6 15:09
> > /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10.0.0
>
> Ditch the RPM's and roll your own.  I love the idea of RPM/Ports/PKG's, but
> they all suffer from one thing:  Depending on someone else to do somehthing
> the way that you would.
>
> It's fairly simple to get snort to work out of the box.  Uncompress, untar, cd
> <snortdir>, ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/lib/mysql/ && make && make
> install and you're done.
>
> -----
> Erek Adams
> Nifty-Type-Guy
> TheAdamsFamily.Net

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