'm working through Intrusion Detection With BASE And Snort tutorial (http://www.howtoforge.com/intrusion_detection_base_snort_p3) on Ubuntu. I ran into a problem with make/install snort at ./configure --enable-dynamicplugin --with-mysql (page 3). I get the following error: checking for pcap_datalink in -lpcap... no ERROR! Libpcap library/headers not found, go get it from http://www.tcpdump.org or use the --with-libpcap-* options, if you have it installed in unusual place LIBPCAP was installed following the directions in the tutorial. Relative to snort, it's at ../libpcap-2006.12.07. Can anyone help? Bruce
make/install LIBPCAP fine There is another thread about the problems I had with make/install LIBPCAP. See "lex is insufficient to compile libpcap" from 12/21. Once I installed flex & bison, I was able to build LIBPCAP.
LIBPCAP built clean The post about snort not building came after building LIBPCAP. The snort build couldn't find the LIBPCAP library/headers. I can post more of the output shown in the terminal window if it will help. Bruce
What's the output of Code: ./configure --help in the Snort directory? What are the --with-libpcap... options that it displays?