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Comment on Nmap on Cygwin by felipe

felipe — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:57:26 +0000

Added your tip to the instructions. Thanks.

Comment on Nmap on Cygwin by Rob

Rob — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:50:29 +0000

Ok I figured it out – with the new nmap zip it comes with installers for both winpcap and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package (see the nmap page for more info).

If you followed the above instructions and get stuck – run the vcredist_x86.exe file inside your nmap directory, e.g.:

/usr/local/bin/nmap/vcredist_x86.exe

I was able to successfully run nmap –version after that.

Thanks again!

Comment on Nmap on Cygwin by felipe

felipe — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:47:56 +0000

What do you see when you type “which nmap”? What do you see when you type “ls -l /usr/loca/bin/nmap-5.51″? What if you go to “cd /usr/loca/bin/nmap-5.51″ then run nmap like “./nmap”?

Comment on Nmap on Cygwin by Rob

Rob — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:41:00 +0000

I followed your instructions however I can’t seem to get nmap to work properly.

I installed the latest WinPCAP – version 4.1.2 – it installs via an installer, only option is whether you want the driver to start at boot time – default is that option checked – which is what I did.

I extracted the contents of the nmap 5.51 zip file into /usr/local/bin (i.e. /usr/local/bin/nmap-5.51)

I have added the following to my .bashrc file:

PATH=".:/usr/loca/bin/nmap-5.51:$PATH"

When I run “nmap –version” at the cygwin command line in a new terminal window – nothing happens – simply it returns a new prompt.

Any ideas what could be going on?

Thank you!

Comment on Nmap on Cygwin by CMR

CMR — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:12:55 +0000

Thanks Felipe, very helpful. +1 (if you were on facebook/google+)

Comment on Nmap on Cygwin by Felipe Alvarez

Felipe Alvarez — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 02:49:02 +0000

@Paul. Thanks for the tip to keep /usr/local/bin cleaner. Thanks for visiting my site and I hope you visit again soon.

Comment on Nmap on Cygwin by Paul

Paul — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:07:24 +0000

Rather than copying the contents of the cygwin zip file into /usr/local/bin, you should copy them to /usr/local/bin/nmap, and then add that directory to your PATH environment variable. That will keep your /usr/local/bin directory clean.

Aside from that minor point, thanks for the tip — just what I needed.

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