How to Install and Uninstall libpcap.src Package on Oracle Linux 9

Last updated: June 29,2024

1. Install "libpcap.src" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install libpcap.src on Oracle Linux 9


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall libpcap.src on Oracle Linux 9:


    
        
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                sudo dnf remove
            
                        
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                sudo dnf autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libpcap.src package on Oracle Linux 9

Last metadata expiration check: 2:33:41 ago on Thu Feb 15 07:50:05 2024.
Available Packages
Name : libpcap
Epoch : 14
Version : 1.10.0
Release : 4.el9
Architecture : src
Size : 934 k
Source : None
Repository : ol9_baseos_latest
Summary : A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture
URL : https://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.