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Argus-3.0.0 is the current stable version of argus, which you should get as a tarball using the links below.

argus-3.0.0 -  http://qosient.com/argus/src/argus-3.0.0.tar.gz
  ftp://qosient.com/pub/argus/argus-3.0.0.tar.gz
argus-clients-3.0.0-  http://qosient.com/argus/src/argus-clients-3.0.0.tar.gz
  ftp://qosient.com/pub/argus/argus-clients-3.0.0.tar.gz

Development versions of Argus-3.x, which are developed and discussed on the argus development mailing list are available, as alpha and beta code. These packages will have all the latest features, bug-fixes, as well as new bugs ;o). Packages are available here.

Argus-development-versions -  http://qosient.com/argus/dev
  ftp://qosient.com/dev/argus-3.0

Argus versions 2.0.6 is still available. Please consider running argus-3.0.x as your first choice for argus and its client programs. Source code for the these distributions can be downloaded via HTTP or FTP from the following locations:

HTTP -  http://qosient.com/argus/src
FTP -  ftp://qosient.com/pub/argus/src

Argus source requires libpcap, and the GNU bison, and it is suggested that you link argus with tcp_wrappers. Argus can also be linked to cyrus-sasl for remote access security. Copies of the most recent versions of these packages can be found at:

libpcap -  http://www.tcpdump.org/release
GNU bison -  http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html
tcp_wrappers -  ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security
cyrus-sasl -  http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/downloads.html

 

Binary Packages

Argus-3.0.0 is a pre-release package, which you should get as the source tarball using the links above. Binary packages for argus-3.0.0 will be available in the coming weeks (as of July, 2009) as distribution maintainers port argus-3.0 to their platforms. Binary distributions of argus-2.x are available for several platforms.

Red Hat Linux 7.0 -  http://qosient.com/argus/rpms
  ftp://qosient.com/pub/argus/rpms
Debian GNU/Linux -  http://packages.debian.org/argus-server
  http://packages.debian.org/argus-client
FreeBSD -  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports /i386/packages-stable/Latest/argus.tbz

If you have, know of, or are in a position to generate, a binary package for any missing platforms, please send mail to the mailing list. We can't accept packages without verifying content, etc..., so please mail the list and we'll discuss.