Can't install Ettercap with Graphical mode using Homebrew

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Eki Eqbal picture Eki Eqbal · Jan 30, 2014 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

I can't install Ettercap to my OSX 10.7.8 using homebrew. Homebrew allowed me to install Ettercap but I can't rub it with graphical mode somehow. 

➜  ~  ettercap -G

ettercap 0.7.6 copyright 2001-2013 Ettercap Development Team

GTK support is not compiled in ettercap

I would appreciate it if you can guide me through the steps to successfully install ettercap with graphical mode at my OSX mountain lion.

Thanks in advance

Answer

garnierclement picture garnierclement · Jun 18, 2014

To install Ettercap with the graphical mode with Homebrew, you can use the option --with-gtk+

$ brew install ettercap --with-gtk+

For your own information, you can get details about options on any Homebrew formula with brew info [formula]

Issuing brew info ettercap in the Terminal will show something like

ettercap: stable 0.8.0, HEAD
http://ettercap.github.io/ettercap/
/usr/local/Cellar/ettercap/0.8.0 (69 files, 2,1M) *
  Built from source with: --with-gtk+, --with-ipv6
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/ettercap.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: cmake ✔, ghostscript ✘
Required: pcre ✔, libnet ✔, curl ✔
Optional: ghostscript ✘, gtk+ ✔, luajit ✘
==> Options
--with-ghostscript
    Build with ghostscript support
--with-gtk+
    Build with gtk+ support
--with-ipv6
    Install with IPv6 support
--with-luajit
    Build with luajit support
--without-curses
    Install without curses interface
--without-plugins
    Install without plugins support
--HEAD
    install HEAD version

Note: in order to use this graphical mode, you also need to install XQuartz

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