Installing NTOP On Slackware 8.0

Update - 05.16.02
I just installed the release candidate 2.0.99 rc1 from the ntop site. It compiles
with a few small changes (which are included below).

Synopsis:
NTOP is useful in seeing what kind of network traffic is going across
a gateway and into the internet.

Directions:

1) Download the complete source for current version of ntop from http://www.ntop.org

2) Copy the source file to /usr/local/src

3)) Untar the contents into a new directory by typing: tar -xvzf ntop-2.0.99-rc1.tgz

4) Enter the directory created by untarring: cd ntop

5) Type ./configure

6) At this point, the Makefile file created by the configure process needs to be edited (detailed here
on the ntop faq: http://www.ntop.org/faq.txt [many thanks to Mr. Deignan]). Add "0:0:0" behind
any occurances of the words "version-info" and "2.0" behind the words "-release" This changed
two lines in the file to read like the following:

libntop_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 0:0:0 -release 2.0 -export-dynamic
libntopreport_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 0:0:0 -release 2.0 -export-dynamic

7) Next, I copied the file depcomp into the ntop directory (for some reason the install process could not
see this file through a soft link that the configure process created).
cp /usr/share/automake/depcomp .

8) Return and type make and then make install to complete the installation.

If your install still fails try the command ./autogen.sh -1 (to recreate the installation
config files and re-run the ./configure;make;make install commands.




See Also:
- Setting NTOP to save into mySQL

NTOP Rocks!
Many thanks to Luca Deri and others for creating this awesome analysis tool. Please visit the ntop site for further info.