Installing TCPFLOW from the GIT site

[RDK]

I've done this before but today I can not get it to work! Running Jessie on a Raspberry Pi v2.

Working from the GIT site (https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow/) I'm trying to install the latest version of TCPFLOW. I have done the apt-get update and then the upgrade so I'm sure the OS is up-to-date. When I run the

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git clone --recursive https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow.git

command it seems to run ok with no error messages. However when I try to run the rest of the commands:

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 cd tcpflow
bash bootstrap.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install  

if fails on the

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bash bootstrap.sh

line saying that bootstrap.sh does not exist!

If I list the new tcpflow directory, sure enough there is no bootstrap.sh file.

What have I done wrong? Thanks....RDK

[DirkS]

Looking at the git repo the filename is bootstrap.bash instead of bootstrap.sh

[RDK]

Thanks. I thought I tried that, but just now it seems to be working. Another senior moment.....RDK

[RDK]

Hmmmm, still having issues,

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bash bootstrap.bash

ran but gave errors for missing modules. I ran this to correct that problem:

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sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
sudo apt-get install git gcc g++ automake autoconf libpcap-dev libboost-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libcairo2-dev

Rerunning

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bash bootstrap.bash

now gave these messages:

autom4te: cannot create autom4te.cache: No such file or directory
autoheader: '/usr/bin/autom4te' failed with exit status: 1
autom4te: cannot create autom4te.cache: No such file or directory
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
autom4te: cannot create autom4te.cache: No such file or directory
autom4te: cannot create autom4te.cache: No such file or directory
automake: error: autoconf failed with exit status: 1
be sure to run ./configure

Now when I try to run

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./configure

I get the command not found error. By the way, I tried

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 ./configure.ac 

which is another file in the tcpflow directory without success.

This whole process is totally different from the previous times I've run it and does not follow the docs on the GIT site. I'm confused and frustrated....RDK

[RDK]

I just noticed the following comments on the git site. Now, I'm wondering if I should have run one of these scripts before I started the install? If yes, which one would correspond to Raspbian Jessie on my Pi v2 ?

To compile for Linux Be sure you have the necessary precursors. There are files in the root directory that will do this for you, depending on your host operating system:
CONFIGURE_ARCH_17_8.sh
CONFIGURE_FEDORA_18.sh
CONFIGURE_FEDORA_26.sh
CONFIGURE_UBUNTU_16_04.sh

Thanks...RDK

[RDK]

OK, these issues have been resolved. The issue around the configure.sh vs configure.bash has been fixed by the TCPFLOW developers. The file has been renamed to match the documentation.

The "cannot create" errors after I ran the

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bash configure.bash

file the second time were permission errors due to my having run the initial git cloning as root but the subsequent commands as my normal user.

For Raspbian Jessie there is no need to run any of the CONFIGURE_???.sh scripts.

Now the installation has completed without any errors.....RDK