How To Install libpcap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpcap.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpcap.x86_64 is A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpcap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libpcap.x86_64`

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.

We can use yum to install libpcap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpcap.x86_64.

Install libpcap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libpcap.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpcap.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpcap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libpcap.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libpcap.x86_64

libpcap.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libpcap.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpcap.so.1.5.3
/usr/share/doc/libpcap-1.5.3
/usr/share/doc/libpcap-1.5.3/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/libpcap-1.5.3/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/libpcap-1.5.3/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/libpcap-1.5.3/README
/usr/share/man/man7/pcap-filter.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/pcap-linktype.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/pcap-tstamp.7.gz

References

libpcap.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpcap.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.