Lucent Technologies manual Building Ethereal from source under, Unix

Building and Installing Ethereal

2.4.Building Ethereal from source under

UNIX

Use the following general steps if you are building Ethereal from source under a UNIX operating system:

1.Unpack the source from its gzip'd tar file. If you are using Linux, or your version of UNIX uses GNU tar, you can use the following command:

tar zxvf ethereal-0.10.12-tar.gz

For other versions of UNIX, You will want to use the following commands:

gzip -d ethereal-0.10.12-tar.gz tar xvf ethereal-0.10.12-tar

Note!

The pipeline gzip -dc ethereal-0.10.12-tar.gz tar xvf - will work here as well.

Note!

If you have downloaded the Ethereal tarball under Windows, you may find that your browser has created a file with underscores rather than periods in its file name.

2.Change directory to the Ethereal source directory.

3.Configure your source so it will build correctly for your version of UNIX. You can do this with the following command:

./configure

If this step fails, you will have to rectify the problems and rerun configure. Troubleshooting hints are provided in Section 2.6, “Troubleshooting during the install on Unix”.

4.Build the sources into a binary, with the make command. For example:

make

5.Install the software in its final destination, using the command:

make install

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