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Message-ID: <20120306042322.GC11763@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 08:23:22 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: how to install system wide
On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 05:23:39PM +0000, billy wrote:
> Hi i'm trying to install john the ripper 1.7.8 jumbo 7
Why use an outdated version?
> as a system wide installation on ubuntu 11.04.
Are you a package maintainer for Ubuntu? If not, then what's your
reason to install John system-wide? Currently, this functionality is
meant for use in packages only.
> I've read the installation instructions and i
> think that the following should install it system wide:
>
> sudo make clean CFLAGS=-DJOHN_SYSTEMWIDE=1 linux-x86-64
No, it should not. The process for system-wide installs is a lot more
complicated. For example, see john.spec in Owl:
http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/john/john.spec?rev=HEAD
Maybe we should add support for end-user system-wide installs as well,
but it's not there currently.
> however i'm getting the following error when i enter the above in to a terminal:
These specific error may be because you dropped everything from CFLAGS,
replacing it with just -DJOHN_SYSTEMWIDE=1.
But like I said, most likely you shouldn't be doing a system-wide
install in the first place - unless you have a very good reason to do it
(please name it and we'll be happy to help then).
Alexander
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