Install Ostinato v0.9 on GNU/Linux

install-ostinato-0.9.rst

Prerequisites

Ostinato v0.9 has the following dependencies:

• QT 4.3+ (but not Qt5.x)
• Protocol Buffers 2.3+ (bug not 3.x)
• libpcap

Install Prerequisites

sudo apt install qt4-default libpcap-dev

For Protocol Buffer 2.3+, clone and build from git repo.

git clone https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git
cd protobuf
git checkout tags/v2.6.1
curl https://src.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/gtest/gtest-1.5.0.tar.bz2/8b2c3c3f26cb53e64a3109d03a97200a/gtest-1.5.0.tar.bz2 | tar jx
mv gtest-1.5.0 gtest
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

Build Steps

1. Check out the source code version 0.9

git clone https://github.com/pstavirs/ostinato.git
cd ostinato
git checkout tags/v0.9

2. Build the source code

qmake
make
sudo make install

References

1. https://devguide.ostinato.org/BuildingFromSource.html
2. https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/tree/v2.6.1