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Asked by adom he

i downloaded Snort_2_9_1_2_Installer.exe can you help me out with running it? thanx

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#1

That file is for installing Snort on Windows. To install Snort on Ubuntu, install the package called snort (you can do this in the Software Center).

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adom he (doobapooba1) said : 		#2

okay how do i open snort after i installed it...i am running ubuntu 11.00

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adom he (doobapooba1) said : 		#3

can you please tell me how to open snort?
root@a-Latitude-D505:~# apt-get install snort
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
snort is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

Try this.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snort/+question/170158

Please close your other question.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snort/+question/177592

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adom he (doobapooba1) said : 		#5

can you tell me how to run snort in the terminal? like some commands to help me

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#6

As suggested in Question 170158 it's recommended to read documentation.
http://www.snort.org/snort/faq/
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/en/man8/snort.8.html

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adom he (doobapooba1) said : 		#7

Thanks Sam_, that solved my question.