Re: Libcap problem in Snort installation
Alejandro wrote:
Dear all, I have a Debian Etch system. After I download the Snort 2.6
tarball and I do tar -xzvf, I execute "./configure --with-mysql" and
I get this error message:
ERROR! Libpcap library/headers not found, go get it from
http://www.tcpdump.org
or use the --with-libpcap-* options, if you have it installed
^^^^^
in unusual place
I have the following libcap Debian packages:
^^^^
libcap-bin 1.10-14 , libcap-dev 1.10-14 , libcap1 1.10-14 ,
libcapi20-3 3.9.20060704-2 and libcapi20-dev 3.9.20060704-2
and the command "whereis libcap" give me yhis result:
libcap: /lib/libcap.a /lib/libcap.so
What can be the problem ??? How can I install Snort in my Debian Etch ???
Thanks a lot and greetings,
Alejandro
I think you'll find the problem is that libcap (kernel capability) is
not the same package as libpcap (package capture)...
apt-cache search libcap
apt-cache show libcap<version>
apt-cache search libpcap
apt-cache show libpcap<version>
The searches will give you the version numbers in Etch. I use Sarge so I
can't tell you what versions you'll have.
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