Install Snort

Before you begin

snort-2.9.9.0.tar.gz is downloaded.
libdnet is installed as described in Install libdnet
daq is installed as described in Install daq

Steps

To install Snort with the prefix /usr/local/snort, execute the following commands:

$ tar zxvf snort-2.9.9.0.tar.gz
$ cd snort-2.9.9.0
$ ./configure --enable-sourcefire --prefix=/usr/local/snort --with-libpcap-includes=/opt/napatech3/include/ --with-libpcap-libraries=/opt/napatech3/lib/
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo mkdir /var/log/snort

You can verify the installation with this command:

$ /usr/local/snort/bin/snort -V

   ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
  o"  )~   Version 2.9.9.0 GRE (Build 56) 
   ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/contact#team
           Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
           Copyright (C) 1998-2013 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
           Using libpcap version 1.7.3
           Using PCRE version: 7.8 2008-09-05
           Using ZLIB version: 1.2.3