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gdesilva

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Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Wireshark fails to start up

Hi, I get the followin error when trying to start up Wireshark....

tux@CRUZO:~$ wireshark

wireshark: error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

tux@CRUZO:~$

I do have the libcap package installed.

Thanks

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,173

Re: Wireshark fails to start up

You need libpcap

#tazpkg get-install libpcap

tux@slitaz:~$ tazpkg search-pkgname libpcap.so.1

Search result for file libpcap.so.1

================================================================================

libpcap

================================================================================

1 pkg(s) found with file: libpcap.so.1

gdesilva

Member

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 419

Re: Wireshark fails to start up

@mojo

Thanks for the quick response. In my system (fresh install) I do not have libcap.so.1. However, I do have libcap.so and libcap.so.2 installed (both are soft links to /lib/libcap.so.2.19). Did a reinstall of libcap package but nothing changes. In desperation, I created libcap.so.1 as a softlink to libcap.so.2.19 but obviously I could not fool the system!

EDIT : Sorry I did not read your post correctly. I did not have libpcap as you pointed out. Installed libpcap and all is good. Many thanks - now I will go and see my optometrist :-)