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Installing Snort on CentOS 6.4

November 2, 2013

My guide is simple. Just the commands you need to run. Please, read before copy and paste. It requires clean minimal installation of CentOS 6.4 and Internet connectivity:

yum install wget
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6.rpm epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

vi /etc/yum.repo.d/remi.repo

        [remi]
        enabled=1

        [remi-php55]
        enabled=1

yum install autoconf automake bison flex gcc glibc libdnet libdnet-devel libpcap libpcap-devel make mlocate pcre-devel rpm-build zlib zlib zlib-devel

wget snort and daq source rpms from snort.org

rpmbuild –rebuild daq-2.0.1-1.src.rpm
yum localinstall rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/daq-2.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm
rpmbuild –rebuild snort-2.9.5.5-1.src.rpm
yum localinstall rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/snort-2.9.5.5-1.x86_64.rpm

yum install mysql-server
chkconfig –add mysqld
chkconfig mysqld on
service mysqld start
mysql_secure_installation