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Installing dsniff

I just thought I’d include a list of packages that I needed to install on my FC5 machine to get dsniff to compile.

  • db4-devel : Berkeley database libraries
  • libpcap : Libpcap
  • libnet : (API for network packet injection)
  • libnids : Network Intrusion Detection System (I got it from dries)
  • openssl-devel : OpenSSL libraries

After I installed these, the configure script completed, then I got some errors with make. I later realized that I ran into some major dependency-hell. Dsniff development stopped almost 6 years ago, and in that time, libnet and libnids have changed. I tried to find some older versions of the libraries, but no luck getting them old enough. I later found a couple rpms on the following site, but should I really trust them?

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/RPMS/dsniff/

[This post was rescued from Google Cache. Originally posted 10/11/06.]

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4 Responses to “Installing dsniff”

  1. Adam Findley Says:
    February 27th, 2007 at 1:35 am

    Arch Linux may have a solution:

    http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=9433&O=0&L=0&C=0&K=dsniff&SB=n&SO=a&PP=25&do_MyPackages=0&do_Orphans=0&SeB=nd

  2. Grant Wallace Says:
    March 27th, 2007 at 4:42 pm

    no FC6?

  3. topher Says:
    March 27th, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    The RPMs aren’t for any particular release of Fedora (as far as I can tell). I’ve installed the packages on my FC6 machine, and it works fine. The two that you want are:
    dsniff-2.4b1-1.vm.i386.rpm
    dsniff-libs-2.4b1-1.vm.i386.rpm

  4. Grant Wallace Says:
    March 28th, 2007 at 9:55 pm

    no i do not need dsniff, i was just asking why you werent using FC6, but it appears you are on a different machine.

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