Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] compilation questions and possible bug...

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From: "Gilbert Ramirez Jr." <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:57:34 -0600 (CST)
As sen_ml@xxxxxxxxxxx said:
> 
> hello-
> 
>   first, thanks for ethereal!  i really love this program.  it's a great
> tool -- i'm using it for diagnostics and educating the folks around me.
> 
>   i have a few questions:
> 
>   1) i'm trying to compile ethereal 0.5.0 on a debian system but for
>   .configure, get:
> 
>     checking for net/bpf.h... no
>     configure: error: Header file net/bpf.h not found.
> 
>     i guess this is because i don't have the berkeley packet filter?  i
>   know there is a debian package that works, but it is not the latest
>   version of ethereal.  any help for compiling would be appreciated.

Right. You need to install the libpcap-dev and libpcap0 debian packages.
I use Debian myself, so it's known to work.

(BTW, hello! We're on the same Thinkpad 770 e-mail list, too)

--gilbert

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