Re: installing tcpdump-4.0.0.tar.gz

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Sep 29, 2009, at 10:10 AM, DALVI RAJIV-TRW486 wrote:

> I have tcpdump-4.0.0.tar.gz
> <http://www.tcpdump.org/release/tcpdump-4.0.0.tar.gz>  from your
> website. What command should I use to install tcp dump on my linux pc?

Most, if not all, major Linux distributions include tcpdump, so you  
probably don't *need* to download tcpdump from tcpdump.org and compile  
it in order to install tcpdump; you might just be able to use apt-get  
(if Debian or a Debian derivative such as Ubuntu), or some other  
command on an RPM-based system, or emerge or whatever it is on Gentoo,  
or... in order to get the version of tcpdump that your Linux  
distribution provides.

If your Linux distribution doesn't provide tcpdump 4.0.0, and you want  
tcpdump 4.0.0, then there is no command you can use to install it -  
you need to use *multiple* commands:

	first, you need to use tar to extract the contents of the  
tcpdump-4.0.0.tar.gz gzipped tarball;

        then you'll need to change to the top-level tcpdump-4.0.0 directory;

	then you'll need to run the command "./configure" to configure the  
build process;

        then you'll need to run the command "make" to compile tcpdump;

	then you'll need to run the command "make install" - and you might  
have to do that as root, using, for example, "sudo" - to install the  
result of the compilation.
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