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Error when opening Wireshark

Hi guys,

When I want to open Wireshark I get this error : error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.0.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried apt-get install libpcap08 unsucessfully.

Any ideas ? I took a look on plenty websites including searching for the libcap error itself but still nothing :(

libpcap

asked 30 Jan '13, 04:20

Nymeria
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What OS/distribution are you using and how did you get Wireshark on that machine?

(30 Jan '13, 04:51) grahamb ♦

I use ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bits and I installed Wireshark with apt-get install Wireshark

(30 Jan '13, 06:18) Nymeria

Did you try apt-get install libpcap0.8? The package is called "libpcap0.8", not "libpcap08". And apt-get install wireshark should have installed libpcap0.8, as that's a dependency of wireshark.

(31 Jan '13, 18:41) Guy Harris ♦♦

2 Answers:

0	what is the output of the following commands? which wireshark ldd `which wireshark` \| grep pcap dpkg --list \| grep pcap Regards Kurt answered 30 Jan '13, 12:19 Kurt Knochner ♦ 24.8k●10●39●237 accept rate: 15%

easy solution is to use apt-get install wireshark* so that all dependent wireshark packages are installed. You further want to try apt-get wireshark-dev

answered 31 Jan '13, 01:49

Aruna Sirigere
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You shouldn't need wireshark-dev unless you're planning on modifying Wireshark's C code (whether it's adding dissectors or changing the UI or...). If you're only making changes using Lua, that shouldn't be necessary.

(31 Jan '13, 18:38) Guy Harris ♦♦