Step by Step Xplico 0.7.0 and 0.7.1 Installation

From 0.6.2 release Xplico System uses Python 3 for Python scritps.

sudo su
apt-get install tcpdump tshark apache2 php5 php5-sqlite build-essential perl libzip-dev libpcap-dev libsqlite3-dev php5-cli libapache2-mod-php5  libx11-dev libxt-dev libxaw7-dev python3-all python3-httplib2 sqlite3 recode sox lame libnet1 libnet1-dev libmysqlclient-dev binfmt-support
mkdir xbuild
cd xbuild

Download Xplico source code from SorceForge

tar zxvf xplico-0.7.x.tgz

wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP-1.4.8.tar.gz 
tar zxvf GeoIP-1.4.8.tar.gz 

cd GeoIP-1.4.8
./configure
make

cd ..
rm -f *.tar.gz

cd xplico
wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gzip -d GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
rm -f *dat.gz
make

cd ..
wget http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/ghostpdl/ghostpdl-8.70.tar.bz2
tar jxvf ghostpdl-8.70.tar.bz2

The ghostpcl contains the pcl6 application that it is necessary to “network printer job”

rm -f *.bz2
cd ghostpdl-8.70
make

Wait for some time

cd ..
cp ghostpdl-8.70/main/obj/pcl6 xplico-0.7.x
rm -rf ghostpdl-8.70

Download videosnarf from http://ucsniff.sourceforge.net/videosnarf.html. Note for 64 bits architectures: Some codec libraries are proprietary and are only for 32bits architecture. The only solution in this case is this: http://forum.xplico.org/viewtopic.php?p=453#p453

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ucsniff/videosnarf/videosnarf-0.63.tar.gz
tar xvzf videosnarf-0.63.tar.gz
cd videosnarf-0.63
./configure
make
cd ..
cp videosnarf-0.63/src/videosnarf xplico-0.7.x

If you want update your DB without lose your data the steps to follow are here.

Install Xplico

cd xplico-0.7.x
make install

Copy Apache configuration file

cp /opt/xplico/cfg/apache_xi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/xplico

After this we have to change Apache ports file to add port of XI. Then, in /etc/apache2/ports.conf add:

# xplico Host port
NameVirtualHost *:9876
Listen 9876

The directory /opt/xplico/cfg must be read/write for Apache webserver.
We must also modify the php.ini file to allow uploads (pcap) files. Edit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini.

The lines to modify are:
post_max_size = 100M
upload_max_filesize = 100M

Enable mode rewrite in Apache:

a2enmod rewrite

And finally restart Apache:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Troubleshooting

Successfully installed on:

If having problems building (on Ubuntu) try upgrading Ubuntu and trying again.

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Fix for ghostpdl-8.70 if not building: (http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692443)

make clean
make XCFLAGS=-DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1

Fix for videosnarf-0.63 if not building:

make (if errors here then do the following)
cd /xbuild/videosnarf-0.63/src
ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpcap.so /lib/libpcap.so
g++  -g -O2   -o videosnarf  main.o stream.o videosnarf.o h264rtp.o g722_decode.o g726_decoder.o g729_decoder.o g723_decoder.o ../codec-lib/libG729a.a ../codec-lib/libG7231.a ../codec-lib/libG726.a -L /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ -lpcap