Compiling nmap from source code and creating a .deb package

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This tutorial describe howto compile from the source code the Nmap and build a .deb package . (updated to Nmap 5.20)

A few words aboutNmap. Originally written by Fyodor Vaskovich (the pseudonim of Gordon Lyon). Nmap is used to discover computers and services with the capacity to detect passive services on the network , many details can be retrieved from a Nmap scan, operating system, device type, uptime, software product used to run a service, exact version number of that product, presence of some firewall .

Tested on Ubuntu 9.10 (all the flavors), Debian 5.0 (Lenny), Backtrack4 (pre fina

apt-get install build-essential checkinstall

Get the latest Nmap source code

wget http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-5.20.tar.bz2

Decompress with :

bzip2 -cd nmap-5.20.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

cd nmap-5.20

./configure && make 

run

 checkinstall

Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: 0
Enter the maintainer's name and e-mail address: 

>> pbailey@cryptolife.org



This package will be built according to these values: 



0 -  Maintainer: [ pbailey@cryptolife.org ]

1 -  Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.6.1 ]

2 -  Name:    [ nmap ]

3 -  Version: [ 4.85BETA9 ]

4 -  Release: [ 1 ]

5 -  License: [ GPL ]

6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]

7 -  Architecture: [ i386 ]

8 -  Source location: [ nmap-5.20 ]

9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]

10 - Requires: [  ]

11 - Provides: [ nmap ]



Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue:

**********************************************************************
 Done. The new package has been installed and saved to

 /tmp/nmap-5.20/nmap_5.20-1_i386.deb

 You can remove it from your system anytime using: 

      dpkg -r nmap

**********************************************************************

install nmap with:

dpkg -i nmap_5.20-1_i386.deb

check the Nmap version installed

nmap -V

Nmap version 5.20 ( http://nmap.org )

Testing Nmap

nmap  -sS    host_to_scan
Interesting ports on host_to_scan (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx):
Not shown: 985 closed ports
PORT     STATE SERVICE
21/tcp   open  ftp
22/tcp   open  ssh
25/tcp   open  smtp
53/tcp   open  domain
80/tcp   open  http
106/tcp  open  pop3pw
110/tcp  open  pop3
111/tcp  open  rpcbind
143/tcp  open  imap
443/tcp  open  https
587/tcp  open  submission
993/tcp  open  imaps
995/tcp  open  pop3s
3306/tcp open  mysql
8080/tcp open  http-proxy

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 51.66 seconds

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