etworktester Installation Guide
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etworktester application helps users in testing the quality of network
connection and in sending complaints on that to provider. A procedure of
testing takes 3 steps:
* choosing the network nodes
* automatic pinging of those nodes to collect statistics on packet losses,
  delays and overall quality
* automatic report writing. 

Runtime Requirements
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To install gnetworktester, the following software packages must be installed:

 * Python, version >= 2.4.
 * pygtk, version >= 2.8.
 * python-libglade.
 * librsvg2.
 * net-tools.
 * iputils (iputils-ping) or fping. 
 * traceroute.
 * xdg-utils.


Optional Runtime Requirements
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 * nmap.
 * gnuplot.
 * python-pydot (pydot).
 * python-sexy.
 * iperf.
 * python-geoip.


Installing gnetworktester
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Installation Procedure:

  $ make
  $ make install

You can to specify where to install do:

  $ make PREFIX=custom_path install

You can to specify configuration file for gnetworktester, for example:

  $ make nid=".isp" install

It will install gnetworktester.isp.cfg to /etc/gnetworktester.cfg.

You can build debian package:

  $ make deb

And you can build rpm package:

  $ make rpm_dist

You can write 'fc' (Fedora), 'mdv' (Mandriva), 'suse' (OpenSUSE) or 'alt' (Alt
Linux) instead 'dist'.


Running gnetworktester
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Just do 'gnetworktester' or you can run gnetworktester from your
GNOME/XFCE/KDE/whatever menus.

Or if you didn't 'make install' you can also run from gnetworktester folder
with './gnetworktester'

Enjoy!

Please also consider joining the mailing list at
<http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnetworktester-discussion>.


Visit the gnetworktester open source project at
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnetworktester/>.

