help installing snort: pcre header missing

cynthia_thomas · 11-07-2005, 05:46 AM

Hi,

I got an error msg when trying to install snort on Linux platform.

Error: the pcre header is missing

How can I download the pcre header.I visited the prescribed site. But I am not sure which file to download.
If anybody know the answer please reply me

my mail Id: cynthia_thomas@myway.com

thanks and regrads
cynthia

unSpawn · 11-07-2005, 11:19 AM

pcre header is missing
You need to install the pcre development package. ( If you're sure you don't need pcre-devel for other packages you could build and install it to a temporary directory and point the Snort compile process to it exporting using ./configure arguments or CFLAGS. )