Information about the package, libpcap-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libpcap-devel package is designed for, Libraries and header files for the libpcap library.
Package Name:
libpcap-devel
Summary:
Libraries and header files for the libpcap library
Description:
Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Libpcap can provide network statistics collection, security monitoring and network debugging. Since almost every system vendor provides a different interface for packet capture, the libpcap authors created this system-independent API to ease in porting and to alleviate the need for several system-dependent packet capture modules in each application. This package provides the libraries, include files, and other resources needed for developing libpcap applications.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.4.0
Release:
4.20130826git2dbcaa1.el6
Size:
114 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD with advertising
Control the libpcap-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libpcap-devel
This command will install libpcap-devel on the server.
yum remove libpcap-devel
This command will un-install libpcap-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpcap-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libpcap-devel
This command will un-install libpcap-devel on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libpcap-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update libpcap-devel
This command will update libpcap-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpcap-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libpcap-devel
This command will update libpcap-devel to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libpcap-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info libpcap-devel
This command will show you core information about the libpcap-devel package.
yum deplist libpcap-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for libpcap-devel. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update libpcap-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libpcap-devel. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.