Installing Flow-tools
You can install flow-tools from an operating system package or from source. Before installing it, visit the flow-tools website at http://code.google.com/p/flow-tools/ to download the most recent version.
Installing from Packages
Most Unix-like operating systems offer prepackaged versions of freely available software. If you can use precompiled, prepackaged software, do so.
However, many operating systems include only flow-tools version 0.68 rather than the newer version with its the bug fixes. Some operating systems, such as FreeBSD, include the newer software as a package called flow-tools-ng.
Fine details in the flow-tools package names are important. For example, flow-tools was recently at version 0.68.4. A search for a CentOS ...
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