Contents
Installed Program:
gnome-nettool
Installed Libraries:
None
Installed Directories:
/usr/share/gnome-nettool and
/usr/share/help/*/gnome-nettool
gnome-nettool-42.0
Introduction to GNOME Nettool
The GNOME Nettool package is a network information tool which provides GUI interface for some of the most common command line network tools.
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Note
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Package Information
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-nettool/42/gnome-nettool-42.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: ba99489e9e3a1af03e9f2719acac7beb
Download size: 413 KB
Estimated disk space required: 12 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Additional Downloads
GNOME Nettool Dependencies
Required
GTK+-3.24.38, itstool-2.0.7, and libgtop-2.40.0
Runtime Dependencies
BIND Utilities-9.18.20, Nmap-7.94, Net-tools-2.10, Traceroute-2.1.3, and Whois-5.4.3
Installation of GNOME Nettool
First, adapt GNOME Nettool to changes in the ping, ping6, and netstat utilities:
patch -Np1 -i ../gnome-nettool-42.0-ping_and_netstat_fixes-1.patch
Then add a fix for newer versions of meson:
sed -i '/merge_file/s/(.*/(/' data/meson.build
Install GNOME Nettool by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release && ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install