How to compile latest Suricata on SELKS

SELKS comes with prepackaged and installed Suricata ready to go and configured. Those packages will be upgraded during regular `` apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade``.

If you would like to compile your own version of Suricata or compile the latest available Suricata dev edition (git) here is how you can do it:

Make sure you have all needed packages:

root@SELKS:/opt# apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dbg libpcre3-dev build-essential autoconf \
automake libtool libpcap-dev libnet1-dev libyaml-0-2 libyaml-dev pkg-config zlib1g zlib1g-dev \
libcap-ng-dev libcap-ng0 make libmagic-dev git-core libnetfilter-queue-dev libnetfilter-queue1 \
libnfnetlink-dev libnfnetlink0 libluajit-5.1-dev libhtp-dev libnss3-dev libnspr4-dev libjansson-dev

Clone the latest dev edition:

root@SELKS:/opt# git clone git://phalanx.openinfosecfoundation.org/oisf.git && cd oisf && git clone https://github.com/OISF/libhtp.git -b 0.5.x

Configure, compile and install:

root@SELKS:/opt/oisf# ./autogen.sh

root@SELKS:/opt/oisf# ./configure --prefix=/usr/ --sysconfdir=/etc/ --localstatedir=/var/ \
--enable-nfqueue --enable-non-bundled-htp --disable-gccmarch-native \
--enable-geoip --enable-gccprotect \
--with-libnss-libraries=/usr/lib --with-libnss-includes=/usr/include/nss/ \
--with-libnspr-libraries=/usr/lib --with-libnspr-includes=/usr/include/nspr \
--enable-luajit

root@SELKS:/opt/oisf# make clean && make && make install

Check with:

root@SELKS:/opt# suricata --build-info

Done!