[ale] Install help

[Christopher Fowler]

Perl Modules

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Pcap'

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 21:34 -0400, Mark Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I consider myself a real geek but Linux sometimes makes me feel like  
> a n00b winders luser all because I don't write my own programs.  I  
> understand programming a bit, Fortran in College,  and I have done  
> extensive script writing in the past but nothing humbles me like the  
> 'make install --Not OK' loop I get into sometimes.  I have installed  
> a dozen or so programs successfully but this one has been going bad  
> from the start.
> 
> I am trying to install Aimsniff.  (www.aimsniff.com)
> 
> In the Readme the author says bluntly he doesn't support windows  
> because he only wants serious responsible users.  He states that real  
> network professionals know 'nix.  I like his attitude.
> 
> He has provided bare bones install instructions.  I am using Ubuntu  
> 5.10.  He lists dependancies but they do not look like programs or  
> libraries to me so I don't know how to check for them.
> 
> Here is the list of the dependancies.
> 
> Requires Samba to perform SMB lookup features.
> Requires the following perl modules:
> Net::Pcap;
> NetPacket::Ethernet qw(:strip);
> NetPacket::IP qw(:strip);
> NetPacket::TCP;
> NetPacket::UDP;
> DBI;
> Unicode::String qw(utf8 latin1 utf16);
> Proc::Daemon;
> Proc::Simple;
> FileHandle;
> Unix::Syslog;
> GDBM_File;
> 
> I installed smb from Ubuntu's wonderful package manager.  In the FAQ  
> the Aimsniff author wrote a script to install the needed Perl pieces  
> by using CPAN but he says that Net::Pcap should be installed from  
> source.  When I run the script all the 'makes' that it tries to do fail.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to get these dependancies satisfied and move  
> forward?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
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