[OISF/outreachy] Suricata installation failure

[Claudius Muzimba]

[image: Screenshot (19).png]
Above is the results I'm getting when i ran the command to check the
architecture of the pc.

On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 13:32, Juliana Fajardini Reichow <
jufajardini at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Le dim. 8 nov. 2020 à 09:07, Claudius Muzimba via Outreachy <
> outreachy at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org> a écrit :
>
>> Hello
>> I'm trying to install suricata(vs 3.1, 4 and 5) in Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.10
>> and it's falling to install when I do the command *make && make
>> install-full. *When I do install suricata in Ubuntu 16.04 it's does work
>> but the problem is with my vb guest additions, I'm restricted to working
>> with a small screen which I do not like that's why I switched to ubuntu 18
>> and the 20.
>> [image: Screenshot (18).png]
>>
>> Hey Claudius,
>
> It seems to me that you are facing some incompatibilities regarding
> architecture, because the error mentions
>
>> i386 architecture of input file is incompatible with i386 x86-64 output
>>
>
> and from what I could find this happens when you are trying to build from
> 32bits architecture when it should actually be 64bits (at least, that's
> what the makefile expects, it seems.
>
> To be honest, I don't know how to *solve* this, but I believe it would be
> helpful if you could tell us what architecture does your computer (or VM if
> that is the case) have.
>
> You can do that by running the command-line lscpu. When I run it, mine
> shows these first two lines, for instance:
>
>> Architecture:                    x86_64
>> CPU op-mode(s):                  32-bit, 64-bit
>>
>
>
> Sorry for not giving you any more conclusive answers, I'll try to dig into
> it a bit more, and reach back, in case you weren't able to resolve it in
> the mean time.
>
> Wish you a great Sunday! :)
>
> Juliana
>
> Above is the error that I'm getting. All help is appreciated.
>>
>> thank you.
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>
>
> --
> Juliana Fajardini Reichow
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