Ethereal-users: RE: [ethereal-users] ethereal 0.7.1 ./configure problems

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From: qztf7k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 11:18:53 -0400 (EDT)
After you installed the libpcap libraries, did you do a 'ldconfig' ??


Just remember to check /etc/ld.so.conf and be sure that the directory where you
installed libpcap is listed there before 'ldconfig'.


Greetings,

On 06-Aug-99 Carl Skipper wrote:
> Hi,
>     New to the list... hope you guys can help me.  When I run the
> configure script before compiling, I keep getting the following error:
> 
> checking for pcap_open_offline in -lpcap... no
> configure: error: Library libpcap not found
> 
> I downloaded the libpcap libraries as instructed and when making them
> did "make install-incl" as stated in the docs for ethereal.  What am I
> missing here?  I'm running a pretty fresh install of RedHat 6.0 on my
> system.  Thanks for any help...
> 
> -Carl

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