pcap.h not found while installing Wireshark.
 

Hi,
i have found following error while installing Wireshark.



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?

And? Did you install the -devel version of libpcap?

See if you have both a libpcap package and a libpcap-devel package installed. The former supplies the dynamical library. The latter supplies a static library and the header files needed to compile. So you need both packages installed.

thanks dear for your immediate response,

is there any other simple way?

That is a simple way. All you need to do is
The "#" at the beginning of the command should not be entered. Its there to indicate that you need to be root in order to run the command.

You could check in your package manager and see if there is a wireshark package available. If not, check the livna repository, or search in the http://rpm.pbone.net web site. You will still need to install the regular "libpcap" library if it isn't installed yet but the package manager should pick that up for you automatically.

thanks reddazz,

yum works..., but how to run it?

'Installed: wireshark.i386 0:0.99.6-3.fc8' is system response,

If yum says that wireshark is installed, then the next thing is to locate it in the menu or command line and use it.