ntop 5 on CentOS 6...

Last week I decided to install ntop on one of my CentOS 6 machines and, to much of my surprise, it turned out that there is no ntop package in the standard CentOS6 repositories (i.e. Base, EPEL, RPMFusion). Then, I looked into Fedora repository and it turned out that there is package, but for the older version, i.e. 4.0 (the newest version of ntop at the time this post was written was 5.0). So, I downloaded that older version, placed new version of ntop, modified a bit SPEC file and tried to build it. It didn't work intermediately, but after few more tweaks it worked. I filled a bug report on RedHat's bugzilla so that maintainter can upgrade a package, if he wishes so.

In the mean time, I decided to build package for CentOS 6. The main problem is that Fedora introduced Systemd instead of traditional SysV init used by CentOS. To cut the story short, I managed to do that, too. The resulting SPEC file can be used in both Fedora and EPEL6. I uploaded new SPEC file (and init file) to bugzilla, so you can fetch them there if you wish.

Until maintainers decide what to do, and if anything to do with it, here are the SRPM file and resulting binary RPM file for 64-bit CentOS6.