Search for and install libpcap-dev package On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Abhishek Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Dear All, > I downloaded the recent release of ntop (3.3.7) from the sourceforge > website. I followed the instruction provided in the docs folder > (BUILD-NTOP.txt). I did on terminal: > *./autogen.sh* > but it printed out an error message at the last saying that libpcap is not > installed. I also try to run it as root user, and even tried the * > ./configure* independently, but all attempt returned the same error > > ******************************************************************** > * > * Checking for unique options for i686-pc-linux-gnu, gcc... > * > * This appears to be LINUX fedora 9 > * > * Testing for extra configuration options for LINUX fedora 9 > * > ******************************************************************* > > Test the compiler and setup CFLAGS... > > checking if compiler accepts -W (warning flags)... yes > > Critical library/include tests... > > checking for pcap_lookupdev in -lpcap... no > *** FATAL ERROR *** > It looks that you don't have the libpcap distribution installed. > Download, compile and, optionally, install it. > When finished please re-run this program. > You can download the latest source tarball at http://www.tcpdump.org/ > configure: error: The LBL Packet Capture Library, libpcap, was not found! > * > > I'm using Fedora 9, and when I checked out if libpcap was installed using > *rpm -qa | grep libpcap* it showed: > > *libpcap-0.9.8-2.fc9.i386 > > *and when i did *ls /usr/lib/ | grep libpcap*, it showed > > *libpcap.so.0.9 > libpcap.so.0.9.8 > > *I'm amazed to how solve this problem and Install Ntop. I really need it > for monitoring. I hope someone from the list could help me with this > problem. > Thank you in advance. > > Regards, > Abhishek Singh > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > > -- ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ M.A. TAMON B.Eng, CCNP, CCNA "A man owns nothing, not land or money, only his character, the loyalty & courage in his heart" My BLOGs: [ICT Business Integration] - http://ibiztech.wordpress.com [Leadership Lessons from Movies] - http://thbs.wordpress.com [In Search of Excellence & Perfection] - http://perfexcellence.wordpress.com [Technical How Tos & Stuff-at-a-Glance] - http://techowto.wordpress.com
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