README.BINARY - v0.24.b12, 30-SEP-2007

Binary installation

To install QNetwatch simply copy the binary (qnetwatch) to a directory in your PATH - /usr/local/bin is probably a good place for it.

Language files (*.qm) need to be placed in /usr/local/share/qnetwatch/lang for this binary to find them. If you want to store them in different places, you have to use the source distribution and modify the Makefile. If you don't install language files at all, the only available language will be US English (although differently displayed).

The included help/documentation browser assumes its data to be stored in /usr/local/share/qnetwatch/doc. Create this directory and copy all .html files into it.

Shared library issues

LIBS.LDD has a list of required shared libraries (the ones used when linking the binary). The provided libqt.so or libqt-mt.so (depending if the binary was built for the single- or multi-threaded version of Qt) is a copy of the shared library used to build the binary. If your version of Qt is not sufficient, you may give this one a try.

Same basically holds for libpcap.so if included - if not, the binary was linked against the static pcap library and you don't need to worry.

Notes

Note that we do not recommend to use this binary distribution in a secure environment, because the password encryption routines have been setup with the well-known default key, which means that stored passwords could potentionally be decrypted. We strongly advise you to specify a unique key, which is only possible when QNetwatch is rebuilt from source!

Please see README and CHANGES for more information!