Problem on AlmaLinux 10

[keenonkites]

I haven't found any binary that would run on AlmaLinux 10.1.

And unfortunately the compilation fails, complaining about missing libcap. But libpcap is installed.

Errormsg: configure: error: You need to have libpcap installed to compile sngrep.

libcap:

dnf info libpcap
Letzte Prüfung auf abgelaufene Metadaten: vor 0:15:27 am Do 11 Dez 2025 14:46:53.
Installierte Pakete
Name         : libpcap
Epoch        : 14
Version      : 1.10.4
Release      : 7.el10
Architektur  : x86_64
Größe        : 402 k
Quelle       : libpcap-1.10.4-7.el10.src.rpm
Paketquelle  : @System
Aus Paketque : baseos
Zusammenfass : A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture
URL          : https://www.tcpdump.org/
Lizenz       : ISC AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause-UC
Beschreibung : 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.

is there any change to get that running on almalinux 10 ? Either by having a running binary or by compiling it on our own ?

Thanks and regards Patrik

[Kaian]

Hi,

I have never used AlmaLinux before, but it may require additional development packages. You may need to install packages such as libpcap-devel, ncurses-devel, and others in order to compile from source.

Alternatively, you can try the statically linked binaries available at https://packages.irontec.com/binaries/ . They may work by simply downloading them and granting execution permissions.

Regards,

[keenonkites]

Hi,

thanks for the feedback.

I'm out of town actually but testing as soon as I'back at the systems.

Absolutely possible that I missed the devel packages.

BTW: static one did work but throw an error about a non existent terminal... not sure anymore about the correct wording but it was something similat to 'terminal xterm-color is missing'... or xterm-color256... not sure anymore I can recheck that also when back.

Cheers Patrik

[Kaian]

Hi!

For the static binaries error, try setting your TERM environment variable to xterm and try again, or add it as prefix to each run..

TERM=xterm sngrep

It may work :)

[keenonkites]

thanks... I'll give you a shout when I have tested it. cheers Patrik

[keenonkites]

Coming back to this issue after checking:

• compilation works now, libpcap-devel was missing (ncurses-devel was already installed)
• using static binary: using "TERM=xterm ./sngrep-static-i386-linux-gnu-latest" helped

I think I will go down the route to compile it for my boxes and distribute the executable.

From my side you can close this issue, thanks for the help. Cheers Patrik