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Installation

Installing btk is farely simple, assumed you're having a correctly installed Python distribution (>= 2.0) with distutils. You also need to have libpcap (>= 0.7.1) installed, but with most *nix distro's its already installed because you need it for tools like tcpdump and snort. Switch to root and do:
host:~/btk# python ./setup.py install
This will trigger the distutils build system and it'll build and install btk in the correct places on your system. If no serious compilation errors were discovered you're able to check if your system is ready to hack with btk.
host:~/btk# python
Python 2.2 (#1, Feb 19 2002, 14:14:04)
[GCC 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import btk
>>> 
No error received when importing python which means its correctly installed! Installation completed, so let's move on...
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