How to install chkrootkit/rootkit hunter

a) Download latest rootkithunter from http://www.chkrootkit.org/download/  (latest version is chkrootkit-0.49 but its has bugs)

mv chkrootkit.tar.gz /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/
tar xvfz chkrootkit.tar.gz
ln -s chkrootkit-0.43/ chkrootkit
(replace 0.43 with the right version number)
cd chkrootkit/
make sense

You will now find the chkrootkit program under /usr/local/chkrootkit. Run it by typing

cd /usr/local/chkrootkit/ && ./chkrootkit

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