Re: problems with nmap and libpcap on gentoo

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:23:22AM +0200, sara fink wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:03 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 07:56:51PM +0200, sara fink wrote:
> > > Due to an upgrade of libpcap in gentoo, nmap doesn't work anymore.
> > > I have installed :  libpcap 1.0.0-r2. Yet when trying to use nmap, it
> > tries
> > > to use version 0.
> > >
> > > nmap: error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.0: cannot open
> > shared
> > > object file: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > version 0 is referred to 0.9.8-r2? I would like to work with the current
> > > version libpcap.so.1.0.0
> >
> > Sometimes when I get an error like this it's fixed by running ldconfig
> > as root.
>
> I tried now your suggestion. nmap still insists on libpcap.so:0
>
> I tried also ldconfig -p|grep pcap
> libpcap.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libpcap.so.1
>         libpcap.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libpcap.so
>
> ls -l /usr/lib/libpcap.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283326 2009-10-08 03:12 /usr/lib/libpcap.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2009-10-08 03:12 /usr/lib/libpcap.so ->
> libpcap.so.1.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2009-10-08 03:12 /usr/lib/libpcap.so.1 ->
> libpcap.so.1.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 198872 2009-10-08 03:12 /usr/lib/libpcap.so.1.0.0

Did you try recompiling Nmap? That's probably necessary if
libpcap.so.0.9.8 has been completely removed, as it appears it has.

David Fifield

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