AirCrack build errors?

[FlyingIsFun1217]

Hey,

So I'm trying to build Aircrack on Ubuntu edgy.
I downloaded the file from the website, unpacked it to the desktop, and did the following in the terminal:

cd /home/user/Desktop/AircrackFolder/src/
./configure

doing this just gives me:

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

well, I ignored this (knowing that I wouldn't be able to build if I did), and tried doing:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Again, ignoring this knowing that nothing would happen:

make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.

So... What is it that I'm messing up? Isn't this how I should go about building it? It should be noted that I'm on a fresh install, if that matters.

Thanks for your help!
FlyingIsFun1217

[FlyingIsFun1217]

Can anybody help me here? I'm sure somebody knows whats wrong here...

FlyingIsFun1217

[lnostdal]

why are you doing this? use synaptic or aptitude when you can!

sudo aptitude install aircrack

edit:
just adding to what wieman01 mentions below that `aircrack' will actually install `aircrack-ng' .. at least here in feisty

[wieman01]

"aircrack" is in the repositories, there is no need to compile from scratch (see post #3). I would use aircrack-ng instead which is way more advanced and has lots more features. It is fairly simple to "make".

[WW]

If you prefer to build the latest version from source instead of installing an older precompiled package, follow the instructions: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?...0ca5323023b108

Note, in particular, that it does not use the Autotools configure command.

[FlyingIsFun1217]

"aircrack" is in the repositories, there is no need to compile from scratch (see post #3). I would use aircrack-ng instead which is way more advanced and has lots more features. It is fairly simple to "make".

Well, thats what I was using, was a download of the source package of aircrack-ng, and thats when I had so much trouble using ./configure, make && make install

Thanks again for the help!
FlyingIsFun1217

[FlyingIsFun1217]

If you prefer to build the latest version from source instead of installing an older precompiled package, follow the instructions: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?...0ca5323023b108

Note, in particular, that it does not use the Autotools configure command.

Thanks for pointing that out, I seemed to not see that over at the aircrack site

Thanks again!
FlyingIsFun1217