Nmap-6.40

Introduction to Nmap

Nmap is a utility for network exploration and security auditing. It supports ping scanning, port scanning and TCP/IP fingerprinting.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.

Download (HTTP): http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-6.40.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/nmap-6.40.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: c0e2f3370e1fb97fb53185b15aa22aff
Download size: 7.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 107 MB
Estimated build time: 1.1 SBU

These packages are recommended because if they're not installed, the build process will compile and link against its own (often older) version.

OpenSSL-1.0.1e, PyGTK-2.24.0 (required for zenmap), Python-2.7.5 (required for ndiff) and Subversion-1.8.3 (required for nmap-update)

Install Nmap by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: ncat, ndiff, nmap, nmapfe, nmap-update, nping, uninstall_zenmap, xnmap and zenmap

Installed Libraries: /usr/lib/python2.7.5/site-packages/

Installed Directories: /usr/share/ncat, /usr/share/nmap and /usr/share/zenmap

ncat	is a utility for reading and writing data across networks from the command line.
ndiff	is a tool to aid in the comparison of Nmap scans.
nmap	is a utility for network exploration and security auditing. It supports ping scanning, port scanning and TCP/IP fingerprinting.
nmapfe	is a symbolic link to zenmap.
nmap-update	is an updater for Nmap architecture-independent files.
xnmap	is a symbolic link to zenmap.
zenmap	is a Python based graphical nmap frontend viewer. GTK+-2.24.20 is a required run time dependency.

Last updated on 2013-08-22 04:10:10 -0700