Packet-o-matic

• libxml2 : Required for parsing and writing the configuration.
• libpcap : Required for input_pcap, target_pcap, target_tcpkill and target_inject.
• xmlrpc-c : Required for XML-RPC interface and the web interface.
• MySQL : Required to build datastore_mysql.
• PostgreSQL : Required to build datastore_postgres.
• SQLite 3 : Required to build datastore_sqlite.

IMPORTANT If you want to use targets and inputs that uses libpcap or any other feature that requires some special dependency, make sure that you install them before running the ./configure script. On some distributions (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu) you will need to install the -dev package that contains the include files. For example on Debian you would execute “apt-get install libpcap-dev”. The package pkg-config is also very important for the configure script. Make sure you have it installed on your system.

You'll find the sources here : https://github.com/gmsoft-tuxicoman/packet-o-matic

You need at least autoconf-2.61. Once you have checked out the repository, you need to run autoreconf to create the configure script.

autoreconf -f -i

When this is done, proceed as explained below.

You can obtain a snapshot of the source here : http://www.packet-o-matic.org/downloads/

First extract the tarball :

tar -xzvf packet-o-matic-svn-XXXXXXXX.tar.gz

Then run the following commands :

cd packet-o-matic
./configure
make
make install

If you did make install, you are fine. The program will be able to find the libraries using automatic resolving or hardcoded library path.

If you did not run make install, you have to set the variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the correct path. By default, libtool creates the libs into the src/.libs directory.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=src/.libs

Also if you didn't ran make install, you may want to create a symbolic link for the share directory that points to your current packet-o-matic folder. This will help for the web interface and target_http.

cd /usr/local/share/
ln -s /folder/of/packet-o-matic/

Some modules such as input_pcap requires root privileges in order to perform their operation.

If after running make install, you have the following error :

packet-o-matic: error while loading shared libraries: libpom.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It means that your system doesn't search at the correct place for libpom.so. To solve this problem add “/usr/local/lib/” in /etc/ld.so.conf. The following command will do it :

echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf; ldconfig