Running/Compiling latest snort on potato

[Shane Machon <shane@twoplums.com.au>]

Greetings,

Anyone had success compiling snort 1.81 on a stable potato box?

Looking at the snort website, there is a question regarding libpcap <
0.5 under Redhat that will cause problems, does anyone know if this is
this redhat specific? Potato only offers libpcap0 0.4a6-3.

I dont have to have 1.81 of snort (would be nice though!), just db
support (1.7 or above)

Any success stories?

I know there are now debian packages for snort, but going to
unstable/testing isnt an option ;)


Any responces appreciated.

Cheers,
 
SHANE MACHON
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