configure: error: Header file pcap.h not found; when tried installing ethereal networ

ssangeetha · 03-21-2007, 12:15 AM

Hi ,

Trying to install ethereal network analyser on redhat Fedora 6, but the following error is displayed

configure: error: Header file pcap.h not found; if you installed libpcap
from source, did you also do "make install-incl", and if you installed a
binary package of libpcap, is there also a developer's package of
libpcap,
and did you also install that package?

Installed libpcap from google but couldnot find pcap.h
Tried to get pcap.h in google also but iam not able to locate the file.
Please help me by giving the file or any other suggestion is welcome.

Appreciate the feeedback in advance.

Regards
Sangeetha

macemoneta · 03-21-2007, 12:36 AM

Just:

yum -y install wireshark

Ethereal was renamed wireshark due to a trademark dispute.

ssangeetha · 03-22-2007, 12:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macemoneta

Just:

yum -y install wireshark

Ethereal was renamed wireshark due to a trademark dispute.

Thanks for your feedback...
But im supposed to install ethereal network only...

macemoneta · 03-22-2007, 12:34 AM

Wireshark is Ethereal. Same software. Lawyers made them change the name. Ethereal no longer exists, except as old unsupported copies of the software. From the FAQ:

Quote:

Q 1.2: What's up with the name change? Is Wireshark a fork?

A: In May of 2006, the original author of Ethereal® went to work for CACE Technologies (best known for WinPcap). Unfortunately, he had to leave the Ethereal® trademarks behind.

This left the project in an awkward position. The only reasonable way to ensure the continued success of the project was to change the name. This is how Wireshark was born.

Wireshark is almost (but not quite) a fork. Normally a "fork" of an open source project results in two names, web sites, development teams, support infrastructures, etc. This is the case with Wireshark except for one notable exception -- every member of the core development team is now working on Wireshark. As far as anyone knows, there has been no active development on Ethereal since the name change.

coreylin · 09-29-2011, 01:43 PM

apt-get install libpcap-dev