Installing conpot on debian Jessie (8) for the lazy:

Prerequisites:
Update your box and sync your clock:

# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
# apt-get install ntpdate libmysqlclient-dev gcc libpython27-dev

Then do a time update :

# ntpdate -v time.nist.gov

Now install pip :

# wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
# python get-pip.py

Then you should get something like this :

root@debian-dev:~# pip -V
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

nice. Now on to
Conpot itself:

# pip install conpot

But if you run it it fails with this error:

[...] from bacpypes import LocalDeviceObjectImportError: cannot import name LocalDeviceObject

Awww snap !
That’s because conpot is a bit outdated and looks for a class in the bacpypes package where it used to be several versions ago, but the author moved it. So all your lazy ass has to do is change

IN FILE: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/conpot/protocols/bacnet/bacnet_server.py
Look for: from bacpypes.app import LocalDeviceObject
Change to: from bacpypes.service.device import LocalDeviceObject

And what do you know: magic happens :

# conpot --help
[...]  Version 0.5.1  MushMush Foundation [...]

Now run it test if it actually listens :

# conpot --template default

And Surely enough, it does :

[...]
2017-05-12 16:21:15,204 IPMI BMC initialized.
2017-05-12 16:21:15,204 Conpot IPMI initialized using /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/conpot/templates/default/ipmi/ipmi.xml template
2017-05-12 16:21:15,204 Found and enabled ('ipmi', ) protocol.
2017-05-12 16:21:15,204 No proxy template found. Service will remain unconfigured/stopped.
2017-05-12 16:21:15,204 Modbus server started on: ('0.0.0.0', 502)
2017-05-12 16:21:15,204 S7Comm server started on: ('0.0.0.0', 102)
2017-05-12 16:21:15,205 HTTP server started on: ('0.0.0.0', 80)
2017-05-12 16:21:15,275 SNMP server started on: ('0.0.0.0', 161)
2017-05-12 16:21:15,275 Bacnet server started on: ('0.0.0.0', 47808)
2017-05-12 16:21:15,276 IPMI server started on: ('0.0.0.0', 623)
2017-05-12 16:21:20,206 Privileges dropped, running as "nobody:nogroup"
[...]

Right, so you told python to do it’s thing, and surely it now listens :

root@debian-dev:~# netstat -antlup | grep -i list
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:502             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      11642/python  
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      403/sshd      
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      667/exim4      
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:57657           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      386/rpc.statd  
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:102             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      11642/python  
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      373/rpcbind    
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      11642/python  
tcp6       0      0 :::22                   :::*                    LISTEN      403/sshd      
tcp6       0      0 ::1:25                  :::*                    LISTEN      667/exim4      
tcp6       0      0 :::42332                :::*                    LISTEN      386/rpc.statd  
tcp6       0      0 :::111                  :::*                    LISTEN      373/rpcbind     

Mind you, this box be much new, very basic.

Here’s how it looks like from a browser on port 80:

Such conpot, much http !
Now get configuring. This guide doesn't cover that since it's plainly written here : https://mushorg.github.io/conpot/usage/index.html