Install successful now trying to install ntop

[Chris Pickel]

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
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