Things I cant understand

[Joao Daniel]

    I'm trying to install in F14, 64bits. Snorts need libpcap 
version(libpcap.1.0) >= 1. As far as I know Yum repositories do not have 
it. Just libpcap version < 1. (libpcap.0.84)

  I also have tried a simply ./configure* (without anything) then a make 
and make install but again no results.

*I guess it would put the files on /usr/lib

On 10/10/2011 05:41 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 10/10/2011 01:12 PM, Joao Daniel wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I'm trying to install Snort. So, the first step is update libpcap. Look
>> what I have done.
>> 1)
>>
>> yum erase libpcap (to unistall old libpcap)
>> tar -zxfv libpcap
>> cd libpcap
>> ./configure --libdir=/lib/ --bindir=/bin/
>> make
>> make install
>>
>> 2)
>>
>> yum install ./daq.rpm
>>
>> At this point I got a messagen telling that libpcap is not installed!!!
>>
>> What is happening ? Did I made a mistake? Better: Why yum cant realize
>> that lipcap is already installed ?
> We need to know what you're trying to install this on (F14, F15, 32-bit,
> 64-bit, etc.).  Snort wants libpcap in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64,
> not /lib.
>
> You should have just done a "yum install libpcap-devel" to get libpcap.
> There's no need to install from a tarball--libpcap has been in Fedora's
> repos for a LONG time.
>
> Yeah, I know.  "NOW you tell me!"  :-)
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