How to Install and Uninstall libpcap.i686 Package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "libpcap.i686" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libpcap.i686 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

$ sudo dnf update $ sudo dnf install libpcap.i686

2. Uninstall "libpcap.i686" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall libpcap.i686 on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8:

$ sudo dnf remove libpcap.i686 $ sudo dnf autoremove

3. Information about the libpcap.i686 package on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

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Available Packages
Name : libpcap
Epoch : 14
Version : 1.9.1
Release : 4.el8
Architecture : i686
Size : 174 k
Source : libpcap-1.9.1-4.el8.src.rpm
Repository : baseos
Summary : A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture
URL : http://www.tcpdump.org
License : BSD with advertising
Description : 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.