Things I cant understand

[Kevin Martin]

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>> Are you getting the version of snort from the yum repo or from snort.org directly?  If it's from snort.org (which, based on the rpm
>> name, I'm guessing it is) there is a fairly concise howto as to how to install the latest version of snort for F14 ( 
>> http://www.snort.org/assets/154/Snort_2.9.0.1_FC14_Base.pdf ).  And, FWIW, the latest x64 version of libpcap for F14 appears to be
>> 1.1.1 so it appears that if you do a yum install libpcap you should have a version of libpcap that is new enough to handle the
>> version of snort that is in the F14 repos (and the version that is on snort.org, which, from reading the install guide, you have to
>> compile and install, not install from rpm).
> Actually:
>
> 	[root at prophead ~]# rpm -qa | grep libpcap | grep 86_64
> 	libpcap-1.1.1-3.fc14.x86_64
> 	libpcap-devel-1.1.1-3.fc14.x86_64
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Yea, I wasn't being quite that exact.  Figured proving that the libpcap in the repo was > 1 was probably enough.

Kevin