Kevin
please correct me if I’m wrong. In essence an interim solution could be 
(limited to 14.04 LTS x64 [sorry we do not build for i386])
- I package PF_RING 6.2.0 and ntopng and put them somewhere in 
packages.ntop.org on a place that you can access independently from ntop’s 
stable
- I can modify *your* ntopng package dependencies (tell me what you need) 
unless you’re happy to re-pack the ntopng binary
- You will notify me if you want me to change PF_RING release in case you 
SecurityOnion moves to another release

Will this be enough for you?

Regards Luca

> On 17 Jun 2016, at 21:01, Kevin Branch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Luca,
> 
> Thanks for reaching out about our issue.  Yes, Security Onion is built 
> directly on 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04.  Doug Burks is the lead developer of 
> Security Onion and I appreciate his work greatly, as I do yours.  I've copied 
> in Doug on this discussion.  I appreciate your interest in a more native 
> level of ntopng support for Security Onion.  I would be delighted to put my 
> ntopng-for-securityonion solution to rest in favor of something that could 
> track more closely with the latest stable releases of ntopng.
> 
> Security Onion packages Snort, Suricata, and Bro IDS to use PF_RING for 
> improved packet capture performance.  These are the relevant deb packages:
> securityonion-snort
> securityonion-suricata
> securityonion-bro 
> which depend on Doug's packaging of PF_RING 6.2.0:
> securityonion-pfring-daq                               - Snort DAQ for pfring
> securityonion-pfring-daq:i386                          - Snort DAQ for pfring
> securityonion-pfring-devel                             - High-speed packet 
> capture, filtering and analysis
> securityonion-pfring-ld                                - Update 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include /opt/pfring/lib
> securityonion-pfring-module                            - High-speed packet 
> capture, filtering and analysis
> securityonion-pfring-userland                          - Userland libraries 
> for pfring
> securityonion-pfring-userland:i386                     - Userland libraries 
> for pfring
> 
> My script presently basically pulls the ntopng and ntopng-data deb stable 
> packages from ntop.org <http://ntop.org/> and installs them, plus grabs the 
> pf_ring deb from ntop.org <http://ntop.org/> and extracts a few files from it 
> that ntopng depends on but that the securityonion-pfring packages do not 
> include.  It does not directly install the pf_ring package from ntop.org 
> <http://ntop.org/> because it overlaps and conflicts with the 
> securityonion-pfring packages.    It does create and install a stub package 
> called "pfring" just to keep the installs of the ntopng debs from barking 
> about depending on "pfring".  This works, but it would be much nicer if 
> ntopng could get automatically updated with an apt-get upgrade instead of via 
> the script.
> 
> Perhaps you could advise us how to build securityonion-ntopng and 
> securityonion-ntopng-data deb packages that we could maintain?  Then we could 
> always make sure it is in alignment with the Security Onion pfring packages.
> 
> Thoughts?
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:43 AM, Luca Deri <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Kevin
> instead of doing all this, can we work together at providing you a package 
> for your distribution? What OS is Security Onion using? Is Ubuntu 14.04 or 
> something else? In essence I want to see if on our end we can support your 
> distro natively and thus better serve your community
> 
> Regards Luca
> 
>> On 13 Jun 2016, at 23:59, Kevin Branch <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> (Please pardon the cross-post.  I should not have sent this to ntop-dev.)
>> 
>> 
>> Hi, I'm the maintainer of a script used by the Security Onion community to 
>> install ntopng onto Security Onion sensors (on Ubuntu 14.04): 
>> 
>> https://github.com/branchnetconsulting/so1404-ntopng-installer 
>> <https://github.com/branchnetconsulting/so1404-ntopng-installer> 
>> 
>> The script makes it possible to install ntopng from your apt-stable repo 
>> onto Security Onion without causing conflicts between the 
>> securityonion-pfring-* packages and your repo's pfring package. 
>> 
>> When the latest stable ntopng packages recently started depending on pfring 
>> 6.4 instead of 6.2, this solution stopped working. While I'd like to see 
>> pfring 6.4 support get onto the Security Onion roadmap, I expect it will be 
>> some time before that will be ready. For now, it would be great if 
>> Security Onion users could have access to the last stable version of 
>> ntop-ng as it was before it was repackaged to use the newly released pfring 
>> 6.4. 
>> 
>> I am specifically requesting a copy of the latest stable ntopng and 
>> ntopng-data deb packages for Ubuntu 14.04 that still depend on pfring 6.2, 
>> along with the matching pfring 6.2 deb package itself. If you like, I 
>> would be happy to host them on my github page (clearly marked as hosting an 
>> OLD version of ntopng) and point my script to pull the packages from there 
>> until Security Onion starts supporting pfring 6.4. 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for your assistance. We really appreciate the quality 
>> product that ntopng has come to be. 
>> 
>> Kevin Branch 
>> Branch Network Consulting, LLC
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