libpcap

[mattogrady87]

Why you have to use an ancient version of libpcap0.8 when its now at 1.9? I want to use this software on my Arch dist but I don't want to downgrade my libpcap and break other stuff :(

Edit:

Incase anyone else has this issue, all I did was create a symlink like this:

$: cd /usr/lib/
$: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libpcap.so libpcap.so.0.8

Assuming that your libpcap is called libpcap.so and in your /usr/lib/ directory.

[spacemeowx2]

Because the linux build is for ubuntu and its latest version of libpcap is 0.8.

You can compile it yourself easily so that you don't need to symlink the file.

[A6GibKm]

I want to say that this is also a problem on fedora. On the other hand, raspbian only ships 0.8, so I can understand this decision.

EDIT: In raspbian libpcap.so.0.8 is a symlink to libpcap.so.1.8.

[refi64]

Could you name the binaries such that it's implied they're Ubuntu-only then? At a glance, the -linux suffix would imply it's some binary that works on multiple distributions (e.g. a statically linked one, or with non-libc dependencies statically linked).

[A6GibKm]

Note that fedora and arch use version 1.9 while raspbian (probably debian and ubuntu too) 1.8, fedora names it libpcap.so.1 but raspbian calls it 0.8.

Could lan-play use whichever is present? It seems both versions are ABI compatible.

[anthr76]

Flatpak or docker image would be good!