Re: problems with nmap and libpcap on gentoo

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

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.

David Fifield

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