hombre, you're truly good!
Told me just what I need to hear! Now I need some more help
For those who might be experiencing same problem, and hopefully for some developer who is about to see this. I located libpcap, and haven't done the same with tcpdump. So, when I did what you said goodhombre, I found that:
1. installing newer version haven't removed older one(I know I'm stupid
I thought it would detect older version and upgrade it), so I had two versions of tcpdump(/usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin), and each time I issued the command older version had been invoked. So that was inital problem...
2. I had to remove both versions and than reinstall the new version. I must notice
I had problem uninstalling tcpdump because "make uninstall" didn't delete all tcpdump files, so I had to do it manually
3. Installing tcpdump to /usr/sbin and libpcap to /usr/lib64 caused error I can't quote, but is something like: (
!no path!)tcpdump: Couldn't open object file (
!no path!)`libpcap.so.1': no such file. Recipe with linking mentioned by @nx5000 in topic "
problem with libpcap" didn't work for me either.
REMEDY: I finally uninstalled both tcpdump and libpcap, cleaned system of tcpdump files(best I could) and reinstalled it to predefined locations. One more notice is that installing tcpdump to the predefined location without cleaning the system of rests of earlier installation caused the fail as well.
PROBLEM: I can only start tcpdump by entering absolute path /usr/local/sbin/tcpdump. If I type just tcpdump, error message appears that says it can't find tcpdump in /usr/sbin
Problem is that both "/usr/local/sbin" and "/usr/sbin/" are in the $PATH,
so I'm wondering why does system insist on /usr/sbin path, and how can I change that, except by creating link placed in the /usr/sbin.
Thanks in advance