Getting an error when using 'make' command (installing aircrack-ng on Ubuntu 12.04)

Question

I followed these instructions. I edited the common.mak file successfully and when I ran make I get this error:

mohd-arafat-hossain@TUD:~/aircrack-ng-1.1$ make
make -C src all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mohd-arafat-hossain/aircrack-ng-1.1/src'
make -C osdep
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mohd-arafat-hossain/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep'
Building for Linux
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/mohd-arafat-hossain/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep'
make[3]: `.os.Linux' is up to date.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mohd-arafat-hossain/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mohd-arafat-hossain/aircrack-ng-1.1/src/osdep'
gcc -g -W -Wall -O3 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_REVISION=0  -Iinclude   -c -o aircrack-ng.o aircrack-ng.c
In file included from aircrack-ng.c:65:0:
crypto.h:12:26: fatal error: openssl/hmac.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [aircrack-ng.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mohd-arafat-hossain/aircrack-ng-1.1/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

What am I supposed to do now?

Solution 1

The error says you don't have ssl header files. So just install them.

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Solution 2

Download openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz and build it twice.

./config  --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl
make && make install  

./config shared --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl
make clean
make && make install

In the first time:it will build the *.so lib file.

The second ,it will build the include *.h file.

It's useful.

Comments

[m3nda]

When compiling the most important is get the -dev packages of the libraries.

[der_michael]

Your solution might work, it is just way less hassle using apt than compiling and maintaining it from source