About the Ettercap project
Original Author:
Alberto Ornaghi (ALoR)
Original Author:
Marco Valleri (NaGA)
Project Stewards:
Emilio Escobar (exfil)
Eric Milam (J0hnnyBrav0)
Email Us: ettercap.project -at- gmail.com
Ettercap offers three interfaces, traditional command line, GUI and ncurses
Supported Distributions
These distributions have been tested in both 32 and 64 bit flavors where possible
- Debian/Ubuntu (Includes derivatives)
- BackTrack
- Fedora
- Gentoo
- Pentoo
- Mac OSX (Snow Leopard & Lion)
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
Unsupported Distributions
Installation may work on the following distributions, but are not supported. Additional settings may be required for compilation and/or use
- OpenSuSe
- Solaris
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
Dependencies
Ettercap source compilation requires the following dependencies
- Libpcap & dev libraries
- Libnet1 & dev libraries
- Libnet6 & dev libraries
- Libpthread & dev libraries
- Zlibc
- Libtool
- Automake
- Flex
- Bison
- SSL Dissection Required Dependencies
- LibSSL & dev libraries
- GTK Related Dependencies
- LibGTK & dev libraries
- NCurses Related Dependencies
- Libncurses & dev libraries
- Filter Related Regex Dependencies
- Libpcre & dev libraries
When building from source, dependencies should be found in the supported distribution repositories. Try these first before acquiring from external dependency source pages. All supported builds have been tested with dependencies installed from the distribution repository.
