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bfeole

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Registered: 2016-08-19

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[Solved] Installing tcptraceroute

Hello,

I have tcpping but I can't install the tcptraceroute program. I don't know what commands to run to install it. I see people using it and people pointing to github, but no instructions on how to actually install it. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Me

Last edited by bfeole (2016-08-22 19:34:33)

dockland

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Registered: 2015-06-06

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Re: [Solved] Installing tcptraceroute

It's in the AUR. Download, compile and install it manually.

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bfeole

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Re: [Solved] Installing tcptraceroute

How would I do that? I've followed instructions in arch wiki, word for word, and they are wrong. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_packages Does anyone have anything more helpful than that I should solve my own problem?

Last edited by bfeole (2016-08-19 20:14:50)

wudu

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Registered: 2010-03-08

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Re: [Solved] Installing tcptraceroute

It doesn't work or instructions are wrong isn't very helpful to others trying to help you.
The instructions are correct so please give us the commands you use and the output of the failing command(s).

wudu

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Re: [Solved] Installing tcptraceroute

Ah, you use the wrong wiki article, have a look here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … g_packages

The article you used is for creating packages...

bfeole

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Re: [Solved] Installing tcptraceroute

Thanks, I got it - I wrote instructions if anyone needs them.

login to the root directory of the arch installation, if you are logged in but are not in the root directory, running the cp command will take you there.
This must be done once to ensure the tools for making a package are installed: sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel (you can install everything it gives you an option for)
mkdir AUR
sudo chmod 777 AUR
cd AUR
lookup the package snapshot on arch linux package repository via your web browser (in this example we use tcptraceroute) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tcptraceroute/
go back to terminal you are using to connect to arch and copy the snapshot url of the package and use wget to download it into the AUR folder
snapshot link is typically in the top right of the archlinux package page (right click and copy the url)
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … ute.tar.gz
tar -xvf tcptraceroute.tar.gz
cd into the directory that gets created
I had to cd into 'tcptraceroute'
makepkg -sri
The -s/--syncdeps switch will automatically resolve and install any dependencies with pacman before building,
-r/--rmdeps removes the build-time dependencies after build, as they are no longer needed
-i/--install will install the package itself.
You can then remove the directories and files within the AUR folder that you created unless you would prefer to keep them for later (so if you uninstall the package you can simply makepkg -sri to reinstall it again)

Last edited by bfeole (2016-08-20 15:59:59)

dockland

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Re: [Solved] Installing tcptraceroute

Great you learned the proper way of getting AUR packages! Kudos.
Please mark your thread as [SOLVED] in the title

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