Nmap from source code

Prerequisites

Fresh installation of Ubuntu 18.04

root@nmapgit:~# apt install gcc libpcap-dev libssl-dev g++ autoconf

Download sources

root@nmapgit:~# git clone https://github.com/nmap/nmap.git

Compile

root@nmapgit:~# cd nmap
root@nmapgit:~/nmap# ./configure
root@nmapgit:~/nmap# make
root@nmapgit:~/nmap# make install

Execution

root@nmapgit:~# nmap --version
Nmap version 7.80SVN ( https://nmap.org )
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Compiled with: nmap-liblua-5.3.5 openssl-1.1.1 nmap-libssh2-1.9.0 nmap-libz-1.2.11 nmap-libpcre-7.6 libpcap-1.8.1 nmap-libdnet-1.12 ipv6
Compiled without:
Available nsock engines: epoll poll select

References

• https://github.com/nmap/nmap

Daniel Simao 01:14, 11 November 2019 (EST)