On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Sean Michael Whipkey wrote:

> I've tried all three methods for installing, and they each die at the
> same point.  I narrowed it down when I downloaded all four parts of
> nessus and tried to install; it bombed out in the libnasl make.
>
> [root@hiro libnasl]# make
...
> ../include/includes.h:213:18: pcap.h: No such file or directory

Looks like you don't have (or the install can't find) libpcap, which is
needed when making nessus-libraries.  You either need to install that or
invoke the configure script with the option --enable-nessuspcap to use
an emulation.

If you want to install libpcap itself, check your distribution CD for an
RPM, download on from your favourite RPM repository, or compile it from
scratch (see <http://www.tcpdump.org/>).

Note: be *very* careful if you choose to compile the source yourself --
as mentioned recently (see
<http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/nessus-0211/44.html>), there
was a trojaned version on tcpdump.org earlier this month.  And the
site's apparently been down since the news broke.


George
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