Installing Yara on Ubuntu 10.04

Installation for YARA on Ubuntu 10.04. First you will need the PCRE development and runtime libraries.

$ sudo apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev

Now acquire the YARA source code.

$ wget http://yara-project.googlecode.com/files/yara-1.4.tar.gz
$ wget http://yara-project.googlecode.com/files/yara-python-1.4.tar.gz

Untar and configure YARA.

$ tar xvfz yara-1.4.tar.gz
$ cd yara-1.4.tar.gz
$ ./configure

If there are no errors, make the executables.

$ make
$ make check
$ sudo make install

Now add python support.

$ cd ..
$ tar xvfz yara-python-1.4.tar.gz
$ cd yara-python-1.4.tar.gz
$ python setup.py build
$ sudo python setup.py install

You should now be able to call YARA from a shell prompt.

$ yara
usage: yara [OPTION]... [RULEFILE]... FILE
options:
-t print rules tagged as and ignore the rest. Can be used more than once.
-i print rules named and ignore the rest. Can be used more than once.
-n print only not satisfied rules (negate).
-g print tags.
-m print metadata.
-s print matching strings.
-d = define external variable.
-r recursively search directories.
-f fast matching mode.
-v show version information.

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