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Just finished installing ubuntu 16.04.1 desktop version. Now I am trying to install libpcap. So far performed the following steps:

  1. Downloaded libpcap-1.8.1.tar.gz
  2. tar -zxvf libpcap-1.8.1.tar.gz
  3. cd libpcap-1.8.1
  4. ./configure && make && sudo make install

I am receiving the following error:

./pcap-linux.c:248:31: fatal error: netlink/genl/genl.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated Makefile:79 recipe for target 'pcap-linux.o' failed make: *** [pcap-linux.o] Error 1

What step am I missing?

I do not have internet access on this machine.

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Your setup is missiing the following libraries:

libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev

You can easily find (on a machine with internet connection) the packages where you can find the missing files with the following apt command:

apt-file search /netlink/genl/genl.h
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  • Thanks Alessandro. Unfortunately I only have one linux machine with no internet connection. Do you know where I can download the file from the internet? Commented Jan 10, 2017 at 15:51
  • Here you go man: packages.debian.org/it/wheezy/libnl-genl-3-dev for libnl-genl-3-dev and packages.debian.org/it/wheezy/libnl-3-dev for libnl-3-dev. You just have to choose the arch. Commented Jan 10, 2017 at 15:55
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    For Ubuntu you should download the packages from launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnl3 instead (although the Debian packages will probably work fine). Commented Jan 10, 2017 at 16:10
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    If you're going to the trouble of downloading binary packages then why not simply download the appropriate libpcap0.8 .deb directly? packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/libpcap0.8/download Commented Jan 10, 2017 at 16:11
  • @steeldriver indeed, that would be much simpler! Commented Jan 10, 2017 at 17:16

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