How to Install and Uninstall libpcap0.8-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "libpcap0.8-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libpcap0.8-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libpcap0.8-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libpcap0.8-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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3. Information about the libpcap0.8-dev package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: libpcap0.8-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.10.0-2
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Source: libpcap
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Romain Francoise
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 848
Depends: libc6-dev, libdbus-1-dev, libpcap0.8 (= 1.10.0-2)
Conflicts: libpcap-dev (<< 0.9), libpcap0.7-dev
Filename: pool/main/libp/libpcap/libpcap0.8-dev_1.10.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 253492
MD5sum: 96986f4e40bd8ba862966049c3b20ab6
SHA1: c5eaf421141638ff4b92a86d728bab6a401769ac
SHA256: d6be90b113a19c90462534efd97a4ca1d67b0c5cfa8e2de138fd259e54ca365d
SHA512: 6ab2a3b96ca876c11d70616097d667152dbb0635075a5cf01b61ccfb05a340d1ae391d9b18c26c24e23330e6a28d6f3fad971113134f261c616a799251dd856d
Homepage: http://www.tcpdump.org/
Description-en: development library and header files for libpcap0.8
Headers, static libraries, and documentation for the libpcap library.
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libpcap (Packet CAPture) provides a portable framework for low-level
network monitoring. Applications include network statistics
collection, security monitoring, network debugging, etc.
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Since almost every system vendor provides a different interface for
packet capture, and since there are several tools that require this
functionality, 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.
Description-md5: 847ec6013e502e2a10ed73e3627d72b8