Compiling Burp (https://burp.grke.org/)

We use burp extensively for backups, we find it to be the best backup solution out there for file-level backups across all platforms. Blistering pace and highly secure. Here we are compiling burp 2.4.0 on an old Debian 11 box since the debian repos have an outdated burp 2.2.

Many thanks to the good work of  Graham Keeling who created burp. If anyone is interested we have made a burp web GUI alternative to the burpui project and we hope to share this soon on github. Anyway back to the case in hand... 

The process is straightforward

apt remove burp* 
apt install librsync-dev libncurses-dev libacl1-dev uthash-dev gcc pkg-config libssl-dev
cd /usr/src/
wget https://github.com/grke/burp/releases/download/2.4.0/burp-2.4.0.tar.bz2
tar jxvf burp-2.4.0.tar.bz2
cd burp-2.4.0 && ./configure --prefix=/usr
make && make install

Now you can check your version with 

burp -V
burp-2.4.0