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pcap library not found error when trying to install reaver on linux fedora

I use a Linux Fedora 27 machine and I would like to install reaver-1.4. I have the same problem as described here: error pcap library not found but I tried both commands: sudo yum install sqlite-devel and sudo yum install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libpcap0.8-dev and nothing works. With the first command nothing seems to change and with second I get the following message:

No match for argument: sqlite3 No match for argument: libsqlite3-dev No match for argument: libpcap0.8-dev Error: Unable to find a match

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Answer

You generally can’t expect packages to be named the same thing in Debian and Fedora, so just swapping in yum with the same package names is unlikely to work. Try:

sudo yum install libpcap-devel

I note that Fedora has version 1.8 instead of version 0.8; hopefully that will not be a problem.

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