Need Help Installing SNORT

[P3N17R8]

ok, i'm reeeaally new to Linux and programming all together and i am trying to install SNORT IDS but i cant for the life of me figure out where to start or how to install it on Linux. I'm trying to learn how to use my terminals as of now but its a little complicated until you get the hang of it i know. I just DL'ed te newest version of SNORT in a .tar.gz file and i found a site that has install instructions but with all the commands its giving me to type in i dont even know where to start. I'm a very quick learner and have a higher than average knowledge of computers so if anyone could help me out it would be much appreciated.

[HROAdmin26]

You're not going to get better instructions than one of the guides on Snort.org. I'd pick a Linux distro that has a guide for it and follow that.

Snort Install

[P3N17R8]

ty i got it to work partly now but when i go to configure i get this message

debian:/usr/local/src/snort-2.8.0.1# ./configure --with-mysql
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

[Thrillhouse]

Looks like you need the gcc compiler.

#apt-get install build-essential

However, I don't think you need to build Snort from source. Most of the popular distros include it in their repos. If you want to use Snort with MySQL (and it seems like you do) try installing it with apt-get:

#apt-get install snort-mysql

I believe it's in the Network repo so you'll have to have that enabled.