The latest version of Kali Linux comes with the most current version of Ettercap. Â But some people are gluttons for punishment and still like to compile stuff themselves so see below.
Installed on Ubuntu 13.10.
$sudo apt-get -y install cmake libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libpcap-dev flex bison libgtk2.0-dev
$mkdir ~/source
$cd ~/source
~/source$ wget https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/archive/v0.8.0.tar.gz
~/source$ tar zxvf v0.8.0.tar.gz
~/source$ cd ettercap-0.8.0
~/source/ettercap-0.8.0$ mkdir build
~/source/ettercap-0.8.0$ cd build
~/source/ettercap-0.8.0/build$ cmake ../
~/source/ettercap-0.8.0/build$ makeLatest source (github 4.16.2014) on Ubuntu 14.04
$sudo apt-get -y install build-essential git cmake libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libpcap-dev flex bison libgtk2.0-dev libidn11-dev librtmp-dev
$mkdir ~/source
$cd ~/source
~/source$ git clone git://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap.git
~/source$ cd ettercap
~/source/ettercap$ mkdir build
~/source/ettercap$ cd build
~/source/ettercap/build$ cmake ../
~/source/ettercap/build$ makeLatest source (github 2.16.2017) on Xubuntu 16.04
$sudo apt-get -y install build-essential git cmake libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libpcap-dev flex bison libgtk2.0-dev libidn11-dev librtmp-dev libnet1-dev
$mkdir ~/source
$cd ~/source
~/source$ git clone git://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap.git
~/source$ cd ettercap
~/source/ettercap$ mkdir build
~/source/ettercap$ cd build
~/source/ettercap/build$ cmake ../
~/source/ettercap/build$ make
~/source/ettercap/build$ sudo make installAny errors I encounter and their solution will be posted as Comments.
hey man thanks for helping
but what about this error ??
root@kali:~/source/ettercap-0.8.0/build# cmake ../CMake Error at /usr/local/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message):
Could NOT find Curses (missing: CURSES_LIBRARY CURSES_INCLUDE_PATH)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/local/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:315 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
/usr/local/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindCurses.cmake:159 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
cmake/Modules/EttercapLibCheck.cmake:14 (find_package)
CMakeLists.txt:95 (include)
— Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also “/root/source/ettercap-0.8.0/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log”.
See also “/root/source/ettercap-0.8.0/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log”.
Qassam,
Based on that error the ncurses development files are not in your path or they are not installed. Curses provides the terminal based “GUI”. If you are using Debian/Ubuntu you can install from the repositories.
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
Response from site admin: You need to be root to install compiled software so
~/source/ettercap-0.8.0/build$ sudo make install
In file included from /root/source/ettercap-0.8.0/include/ec_globals.h:8:0,
from /root/source/ettercap-0.8.0/include/ec.h:52,
from /root/source/ettercap-0.8.0/src/interfaces/text/ec_text.c:22:
/root/source/ettercap-0.8.0/include/ec_network.h:7:20: fatal error: libnet.h: No such file or directory
#include
^
compilation terminated.
src/interfaces/CMakeFiles/ec_interfaces.dir/build.make:62: recipe for target ‘src/interfaces/CMakeFiles/ec_interfaces.dir/text/ec_text.c.o’ failed
make[2]: *** [src/interfaces/CMakeFiles/ec_interfaces.dir/text/ec_text.c.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:516: recipe for target ‘src/interfaces/CMakeFiles/ec_interfaces.dir/all’ failed
make[1]: *** [src/interfaces/CMakeFiles/ec_interfaces.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:127: recipe for target ‘all’ failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
Fixed problem by “apt-get install libnet1-dev”
“/root/source/ettercap-0.8.0/src/ec_sslwrap.c: In function ‘sslw_create_selfsigned’:
/root/source/ettercap-0.8.0/src/ec_sslwrap.c:1065:13: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘X509_EXTENSION {aka struct X509_extension_st}’
ext->value->data[7] = 0xe7;
^~
src/CMakeFiles/lib_ettercap.dir/build.make:1094: recipe for target ‘src/CMakeFiles/lib_ettercap.dir/ec_sslwrap.c.o’ failed
make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/lib_ettercap.dir/ec_sslwrap.c.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:385: recipe for target ‘src/CMakeFiles/lib_ettercap.dir/all’ failed
make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/lib_ettercap.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:127: recipe for target ‘all’ failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
“
Not getting this error on Xubuntu 16.04 as I have an older version of OpenSSL running (libssl-dev = 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.6). There has been an issue submitted to ettercap.
https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/issues/739