pcap

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:24 -0400, Steve Reilly wrote:
> madunix wrote:
> > am trying to recompile a c code program it gave me :
> > error: pcap.h: No such file or directory
> > how  resolve this issue ?
> > 
> 
> try sudo apt-get install python-pypcap
> 
> and re compile

That might work, as installing the Python library probably pulls in the
necessary underlying pcap library.

Since he's not using Python, though, maybe a better option would be to
install just libpcap:

   sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev

Regards, K.

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