Kismet Installation

I am trying to install Kismet on openSUSE 11.0. Here is the output:

stacy-suse:/home/ryan/kismet-2008-05-R1 # ./configure
checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89… none needed
checking for g++… g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler… yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g… yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor… gcc -E
checking for platform-specific compiler flags… none needed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e… /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep… /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files… yes
checking for sys/types.h… yes
checking for sys/stat.h… yes
checking for stdlib.h… yes
checking for string.h… yes
checking for memory.h… yes
checking for strings.h… yes
checking for inttypes.h… yes
checking for stdint.h… yes
checking for unistd.h… yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian… no
checking errno.h usability… yes
checking errno.h presence… yes
checking for errno.h… yes
checking for stdlib.h… (cached) yes
checking for string.h… (cached) yes
checking sys/socket.h usability… yes
checking sys/socket.h presence… yes
checking for sys/socket.h… yes
checking sys/time.h usability… yes
checking sys/time.h presence… yes
checking for sys/time.h… yes
checking sys/wait.h usability… yes
checking sys/wait.h presence… yes
checking for sys/wait.h… yes
checking for unistd.h… (cached) yes
checking for sys/types.h… (cached) yes
checking netdb.h usability… yes
checking netdb.h presence… yes
checking for netdb.h… yes
checking getopt.h usability… yes
checking getopt.h presence… yes
checking for getopt.h… yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const… yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included… yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h… time.h
checking for ANSI C header files… (cached) yes
checking return type of signal handlers… void
checking whether lstat dereferences a symlink specified with a trailing slash… yes
checking whether stat accepts an empty string… no
checking for gettimeofday… yes
checking for memset… yes
checking for select… yes
checking for socket… yes
checking for strcasecmp… yes
checking for strftime… yes
checking for strstr… yes
checking for system-level getopt_long()… yes
checking for stdint.h… (cached) yes
checking for accept() addrlen type… socklen_t
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files… no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files… 64
checking for main in -luClibc++… no
checking for main in -lstdc++… yes
checking for group ‘root’… yes
checking for group ‘man’… checking for pkg-config… /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0… yes
checking for pkghildon… no
checking for initscr in -lncurses… no
configure: WARNING: Unable to find libncurses
checking for initscr in -lcurses… no
configure: error: Unable to find libncurses or libcurses

The next command should be $make and #make install. But they don’t work, I get this message:

stacy-suse:/home/ryan/kismet-2008-05-R1 # make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

and this:

stacy-suse:/home/ryan/kismet-2008-05-R1 # make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install’. Stop.

I don’t have any clue on why they won’t work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

It’s all right there – called “dependency h3ll”. Obviously you need those.

Look each up in: RPM Search ; look for the suse version & it will tell you what app provides it; install it with Yast.

Better is to install Kismet rpm and let Yast take care of the dependencies:
Webpin
then search for Kismet:
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Have fun:)

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:56:03 GMT
petaganayr <petaganayr@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> I am trying to install Kismet on openSUSE 11.0. Here is the output:
>
> stacy-suse:/home/ryan/kismet-2008-05-R1 # ./configure

> configure: WARNING: Unable to find libncurses
> checking for initscr in -lcurses… no
> configure: error: Unable to find libncurses or libcurses
>
> I don’t have any clue on why they won’t work. Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks!

It’s not you, really… but I wonder when reading went out of style…

The LAST message of the ‘./configure’ command was

> configure: error: Unable to find libncurses or libcurses

Which means it can’t find those.

Go to Yast, search for ncurses, install the devel package for it.
(ncurses-devel), or install it through zypper:

zypper install ncurses-devel

Then try your ‘./configure’ command again.

You MAY find other dependencies you need to compile the kismet source… if
you see ‘libxxx…’, then search for ‘xxx’, and install the -devel package.
Repeat as necessary.

========

Alternatively, you COULD just search for and install kismet through yast or
zypper and not even bother compiling it. It’s available from the main oss
repos…

zypper install kismet

All done!!


L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

> Alternatively, you COULD just search for and install kismet through yast or
> zypper and not even bother compiling it. It’s available from the main oss
> repos…
>
> zypper install kismet
>
> All done!!

PERHAPS what this place needs is a BIGGER ‘sticky’ that new (to Linux or SUSE)
canNOT miss…which says something like:

You have heard the FUD about how few applications there are for Linux, and how
terribly difficult they are to install and set up (so, if you are power-user,
and not one of those geeky hackers, you better stick with the Herd’s OS).
However, no matter how many times you have been told otherwise, it is NOT always
required to build/compile every time you want to try something new. There
are a few thousand application ready to go, and several ways to lay them into
your system EASILY. Depending on the flavor [SUSE, Red Hat/Fedora,
Debian/Ubuntu, etc] of Linux you choose, you may have available some or all of
the means mentioned in:

http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts#Software_Package_Managers_.28SPMs.29
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6644jv

have fun NOT following the sheep.


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