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You have to install 'libpcap' package. ('up2date libpcap' shou do it for you)<br />
Or if You have this installed, then you need different version of libpcap or snort.<br />
Or if libpcap is installed You could try 'ln -sf /usr/lib/libpcap.so.your.v<wbr />ersion /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.6.2'<wbr /><br />

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You have to install 'libpcap' package. ('up2date libpcap' shou do it for you)
Or if You have this installed, then you need different version of libpcap or snort.
Or if libpcap is installed You could try 'ln -sf /usr/lib/libpcap.so.your.version /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.6.2'


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You can also try install libpcap via yum just type as root:<br />
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yum install libpcap
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You can also try install libpcap via yum just type as root:

yum install libpcap

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But I thought that yum appeard on fedora - that redhat hasn;t that tool...<br />

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But I thought that yum appeard on fedora - that redhat hasn;t that tool...


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I am trying to get Snort running in my red Hat 9.0 installation and I am getting this while I am trying to run using Webmin:<br />
Executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/snortd start ..<br />
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Starting snort: /usr/sbin/snort: error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.0.6.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br />
[FAILED]<br />
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I have tried two snort versions 2.4 and then 2.3 and also tried to install the libpcaps rpm using the webmin rmpfinder and this is a nightmare. Please help, M<br />

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I am trying to get Snort running in my red Hat 9.0 installation and I am getting this while I am trying to run using Webmin:
Executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/snortd start ..

Starting snort: /usr/sbin/snort: error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.0.6.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[FAILED]

I have tried two snort versions 2.4 and then 2.3 and also tried to install the libpcaps rpm using the webmin rmpfinder and this is a nightmare. Please help, M


Starting snort: /usr/sbin/snort: error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.0.6.2

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