On 11 Mar, 2008, at 16:48, Alex Zavatone wrote:
My goal in installing MacPorts was to get a ntop installed. Checking for installation instructions for ntop on macports.org wasn't helpful at all; I couldn't find any instructions. Luckily, back at the old darwinports.org there is a url for ntop, http://ntop/darwinports.org that actually contains installation instructions:
Did you mean http://ntop.*.com? That site is not affiliated with MacPorts at all and has been a source of much bad information (you might notice I avoid even writing something that could be construed as a link to it). The place that you should have found information would be the [MacPorts guide][1], in section [3.1.8][2]. Where did you look instead? What would have guided you towards this location? (we want to be better at getting people there in the future). [1] http://guide.macports.org/ [2] http://guide.macports.org/#using.port.install
cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/ntop % sudo port install ntop
One problem here is that if /portslocation/dports/ntop doesn't exist, then you must create it, cd to it and then sudo. Even thou the instructions are clear, they should mention this to save newbies like me.
These instructions are wrong. It should not be necessary to do anything but "sudo port install ntop", as with any MacPorts port.
Once the directories are created, sudo port install ntop works wonderfully, installing all sorts files - that is until it gets to libcap. Libcap can't be found in any of the following locations: ---> Fetching libpcap ---> Attempting to fetch libpcap-0.9.8.tar.gz from http://www.tcpdump.org/release/ ...
It appears that tcpdump.org, the provider of libpcap, is currently inaccessible. If you can find libpcap-0.9.8.tar.gz elsewhere online, dropping it in /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/libpcap will allow you to continue. Otherwise, you'll have to wait for the site to come back up. Regards, Chris