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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