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
>
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