Error while installing Zeek-aux : Unknown CMake command "FindRequiredPackage"

Question

I've downloaded the zeek-aux zipped source-code from 'https://github.com/zeek/zeek-aux'. While comipiling i'm getting the following error.

'Unknown CMake command "FindRequiredPackage"'

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

A ZIP download from GitHub doesn't populate the git submodules, and the functionality you're missing is defined in the cmake submodule. You can verify this by doing an ls in the cmake directory -- there's likely nothing in there.

You can fix this in a few different ways. The easiest likely is to use a recursive clone instead of a ZIP download: git clone --recursive https://github.com/zeek/zeek-aux. Alternatively, you can stick with the ZIP and say git submodule sync --recursive followed up git submodule update --recursive --init in its toplevel directory.