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

Last updated: June 20,2024

1. Install "libpcap.i686" package

Please follow the guidance below to install libpcap.i686 on CentOS Stream 8


    
        
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                sudo dnf update
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf install
            
                        
                libpcap.i686
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libpcap.i686" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libpcap.i686 on CentOS Stream 8:


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
                libpcap.i686
            
                    
    
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libpcap.i686 package on CentOS Stream 8

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Available Packages
Name : libpcap
Epoch : 14
Version : 1.9.1
Release : 5.el8
Architecture : i686
Size : 176 k
Source : libpcap-1.9.1-5.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.
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: Install libpcap if you need to do low-level network traffic monitoring
: on your network.