Installation of tar.gz

[pottsiex5]

Hi,
I want to install a program from this website http://www.thc.org/thc-hydra/ and i download the option "
hydra-6.3-src.tar.gz (http://freeworld.thc.org/releases/hydra-6.3-src.tar.gz)"

i tried following the instructions on this page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

but when i get to the ./configure step it says "bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"

can anyone explain how to install this please?
thankyou

[squaregoldfish]

The tar.gz file is an archive containing lots of files (similar to a zip file). You have to extract the files before you can use it.


tar xzf <filename>

This will create a directory next to the tar.gz file. Enter that directory, and you should find the configure script so you can continue following the instructions.

HTH,
Steve.

[pottsiex5]

Thanks, that worked, but now i have another question. when i get to the "make install" step i get an error:

strip hydra pw-inspector
echo OK > /dev/null && test -x xhydra && strip xhydra || echo OK > /dev/null
cp hydra pw-inspector /usr/local/bin && cd /usr/local/bin && chmod 755 hydra pw-inspector
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/hydra': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/pw-inspector': Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 1

how do i get it so that it doesnt deny me permission?
thanks

[squaregoldfish]

You need to have root (administrator) access to install software to the main portions of the operating system. The sudo command will give you temporary access to run a command as root, so you can run


sudo make install

to get the permission you need.

Note that you'll be asked for your password when you do this.

Steve.

[pottsiex5]

Hey,
This worked but now i get an error saying that a directory doesnt exist:

strip hydra pw-inspector
echo OK > /dev/null && test -x xhydra && strip xhydra || echo OK > /dev/null
cp hydra pw-inspector /usr/local/bin && cd /usr/local/bin && chmod 755 hydra pw-inspector
echo OK > /dev/null && test -x xhydra && cp xhydra /usr/local/bin && cd /usr/local/bin && chmod 755 xhydra || echo OK > /dev/null
cp -f hydra.1 xhydra.1 pw-inspector.1 /usr/local/man/man1
cp: target `/usr/local/man/man1' is not a directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

should i create that directory? and if so what is the command?

Pottsie

[squaregoldfish]

The make install command will create all the directories it needs.

[pottsiex5]

but thats the thing, running "sudo make install" gives that error:

pottsie@joel-potts:/usr/local/src/hydra-6.3-src$ sudo make install
[sudo] password for pottsie:
strip hydra pw-inspector
echo OK > /dev/null && test -x xhydra && strip xhydra || echo OK > /dev/null
cp hydra pw-inspector /usr/local/bin && cd /usr/local/bin && chmod 755 hydra pw-inspector
echo OK > /dev/null && test -x xhydra && cp xhydra /usr/local/bin && cd /usr/local/bin && chmod 755 xhydra || echo OK > /dev/null
cp -f hydra.1 xhydra.1 pw-inspector.1 /usr/local/man/man1
cp: target `/usr/local/man/man1' is not a directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

[pottsiex5]

Should i use the chown command to be able to create the folder?

[squaregoldfish]

Post the result of:


ls -l /usr/local/man

[etherspin]

Many people seem to have trouble either installing hydra with SSL support, or getting xhydra working. I just installed it on Ubuntu 11.04 and I want to share with others. I gathered most of the installation procedure from this site: http://edwincastillo.com/archives/242.

Open a terminal.

Prepare for the installation-->



sudo apt-get install libssh-dev
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
wget -c http://thc.org/thc-hydra/releases/hydra-6.4-src.tar.gz
wget -c http://www.libssh.org/files/0.5/libssh-0.5.0.tar.gz
To be safe we install libssh (hydra has not like the libssh-dev package that comes with Ubuntu in previous releases)-->



tar -xvzf libssh-0.5.0.tar.gz
cd libssh-0.5.0
mkdir build
cd build
If you don't have cmake-->



sudo apt-get install cmake
Then-->



cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug ..
make
sudo make install
cd ../..
Now to extract and install hydra-->



tar -xvzf hydra-6.4-src.tar.gz
cd hydra-6.4-src
./configure
make
sudo make install


Now to install xhydra (though it should be installed with the previous commands)-->



cd hydra-gtk
./configure
make
sudo make install

Start xhydra by opening terminal and-->



xhydra
I hope this helps!