Building packages from source

So first I started with building nled from source on my laptop which is running Ubuntu 8.04. Right from the start it was not ready to be done at all. The problems were not that hard to fix though. I just had to download the packages "build-essentials", which I believe is the C compiler, and the ncurses library. From my searching I found that ncurses is just a toolkit for developing GUI-like apps. The exact commands I used to install these are:

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

After these were installed, I ran the make command and everything worked perfectly.

The next thing that I decided to build was the program called ettercap. Ettercap is a program that is "A multipurpose sniffer/content filter for man in the middle attacks" as the man page for it states. I know what you may be thinking but dont worry, I am using this program in a completely non-threatening way :). This program did prove to be quite a bit more stubborn to install. I was missing several packages. I started by getting the libpcap, libnet, libpthread and zlib packages by using the built in synaptic package manager in ubuntu. After that I could run the configure but it still needed to have the packages GTK+, ATK, and Pango to be able to run the GUI version. I was able to get the ATK and Pango packages from the package manager as well but when I tried to find the GTK+ package there was so many to choose from that I didn't know which one to get. A quick google search later and I found that I needed to run "sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev" to get the package. I ran the configure command again, waited, ran make, waited, ran sudo make install, then it was all done.

I have added a picture of the finished product just to maybe make this blog a little more appealing.

Adam Out!