Tech-note: Solaris packaging of TCPdump 3.8.3

What:

• Minimalistic packaging of tcpdump 3.8.3 for the Solaris package system, running on a SPARC-based architecture. [Download NTLMtcpdump-sparc.pkg]

Characteristics:

• Does not mess up your directory permissions.
• Installs only two files: the binary, /usr/sbin/tcpdump and a man page, /usr/share/man/man1/tcpdump.1.
• Compiled with Sun One Studio Compiler.
• Compiled for SPARCv1 instruction set.

Installation:

• Download the package to a temporary directory.
• Run pkgadd -d NTLMtcpdump-sparc.pkg from that directory and select the package for installation.

Installation transcript:

# pkgadd -d NTLMtcpdump-sparc.pkg 

The following packages are available:
  1  NTLMtcpdump     tcpdump - dump traffic on a network
                     (sparc) 3.8.3

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: 1

Processing package instance <NTLMtcpdump> from </home/mad/NTLMtcpdump-sparc.pkg>

tcpdump - dump traffic on a network
(sparc) 3.8.3
Using </> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
## Verifying disk space requirements.
## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.
## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.

Installing tcpdump - dump traffic on a network as <NTLMtcpdump>

## Installing part 1 of 1.
/usr/sbin/tcpdump
/usr/share/man/man1/tcpdump.1
[ verifying class <none> ]

Installation of <NTLMtcpdump> was successful.