Install Snort on OS X Mavericks

snort_mavericks.sh

#!/bin/sh

brew install libdnet

curl -O https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/daq-2.0.2.tar.gz
tar xvfz daq-2.0.2.tar.gz
cd daq-2.0.2
./configure; make; sudo make install


curl -O https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/snort-2.9.6.2.tar.gz
tar xvfz snort-2.9.6.2.tar.gz
cd snort-2.9.6.2
./configure --enable-sourcefire; make; sudo make install

# grab oinkcode from snort.org

curl -O https://www.snort.org/rules/snortrules-snapshot-2962.tar.gz?oinkcode=<oinkcode>
sudo mkdir /etc/snort
sudo tar -xvfz snortrules-snapshot-<version>.tar.gz -C /etc/snort

sudo mkdir /var/log/snort

# disable line in config
# dynamicdetection directory /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicrules

#sudo snort -c /etc/snort/etc/snort.conf -k none -i en0

It's Homebrew.

thanks for your sharing and it does work for the installation but it failed to run snort in Mac OS Sierra because openssl version issue.