Information about the package, libpcap, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libpcap package is designed for, A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture.
Package Name:
libpcap
Summary:
A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture
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. Install libpcap if you need to do low-level network traffic monitoring on your network.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.4.0
Release:
4.20130826git2dbcaa1.el6
Size:
307 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
BSD with advertising
Control the libpcap package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libpcap
This command will install libpcap on the server.
yum remove libpcap
This command will un-install libpcap on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpcap, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libpcap
This command will un-install libpcap 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 when using the -y flag.
yum update libpcap
This command will update libpcap to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpcap, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libpcap
This command will update libpcap 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 when using the -y flag.
yum info libpcap
This command will show you core information about the libpcap package.
yum deplist libpcap
This command will show you the dependencies for libpcap. 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
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libpcap. 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.