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Re: [Snort-users] failed dependancies with libpcap

From: Matt Kettler (mkettlerevi-inc.com)
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 12:38:44 CDT


At 05:26 AM 8/5/2004, Fabio wrote:
>Trying to install snort I got a failed dependancies error with
>libpcap.so.0.6.2, but this one I have correctly (I hope)installed using
>libpcap-0.6.2.tar.gz. The same error I got using other packet to install
>snort ( .tar.gz or older version).
>
>Anyone can help me?

Don't mix tarballs and RPMs.

RPM is *completely* unaware of your install of libpcap, thus, when you go
to install a RPM based snort, it complains.

You should be able to correctly install snort from tarball however, so just
use that instead of snort-*.rpm

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