Re: zenmap on Mac - install problem

On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:03 AM, David Fifield wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:54:04PM -0500, Walt Scrivens wrote:
>> I just downloaded and installed the nmap 4.50 tarball on a Mac
>> running
>> Leopard.
>>
>> The README in the zenmap/install_scripts folder refers to a
>> nonexistent macosx folder:
>>
>> -------
>> Generating Mac OS X App:
>>
>> 1 - Install the required dependencies for Mac OS X (including PIL)
>> 2 - Run install_scripts/macosx/generate_macosx_app.sh
>>
>> Obs: Some path adaptations may be needed in the script above in order
>> to make
>> it work in your system.
>> -------
>>
>> nmap works fine, but I'd like to have the GUI as well if possible.
>> Help, please?
>> (The unix instructions appear to be wrong, too.)
>
> Sorry, those instructions were out of date. Package building for Unix
> and Windows is now handled by the Nmap makefiles. The scripts in
> install_scripts don't have to do with building packages anymore. I
> have
> updated install_scripts/README in Subversion.
>
> Zenmap on Mac OS X is a work in progress. See
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0497.html for Fyodor's request
> for
> a .app package and
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0490.html for how to override
> PYTHON to use a Fink or MacPorts Python installation. But you may be
> better off waiting for a package because Mac OS X is missing many of
> Zenmap's dependencies.

There is now a nmap 4.50 package available in Fink's unstable tree for
10.4 and 10.5 and zenmap is working fine for me. However, I've had no
luck building a standalone version outside of Fink. PyGTK is
fiendishly complicated to get working on OS X.

Note that this package is currently build-from-source only.

http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/nmap

Daniel

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