Scapy install issues. Nothing seems to actually be installed?

Question

I have an apple computer running Leopard with python 2.6. I downloaded the latest version of scapy and ran \"python setup.py install\". All went according to plan

Answer 1

I've also had lots of issues getting Scapy and its dependencies properly installed on my Mac, finally I found Homebrew Python GitHub page https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-python it contains lots of helpful/useful brew formula including one for Scapy that worked like a charm for me.

brew tap Homebrew/python
brew install scapy

I also had an issue with my pcapy which was solved by another formula in the repo for pypcap, so same procedure.

brew install pypcap

Answer 2

MAC install follow the instructions here in case if you want to install it in a virtualenv by first going into the virtualenv and then just using python setup.py install instead of sudo.

Answer 3

I have collected all the libraries needed for network programming in Python for Windows and made a single integrated installer. Its on Google Code. Just extract and run the installer after reading the installation file, installs all the dependencies needed for running Scapy on Py2.6.

Answer 4

Install libdnet:http://libdnet.sourceforge.net/ and python-libpcat: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pylibpcap/

For libdent:

CFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' ./configure --prefix=/usr
archargs='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' make
sudo make install
cd python
sudo python setup.py install

Answer 5

I was able to get this working by #commenting out the route6 import statment in all.py within the scapy mod directory.

After that, I was able to bring up the interactive scapy prompt.

So the real solution to this issue is to make sure you have a compatible route6 mod.

Answer 6

Follow these instructions from scapy website. There are dependencies that you must resolve before doing the install. It worked like a charm for me on a Windows machine.

http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/doc/installation.html#mac-os-x