./configure checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for pcap_open_live in -lpcap... no error: pcap library not found! [i have tried the commands ]
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-0 libpcap0.8 [sudo] password for lester: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libpcap0.8 is already the newest version (1.7.4-2). libpcap0.8 set to manually installed. libsqlite3-0 is already the newest version (3.11.0-1ubuntu1) but still i caanot configure reaver
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It's the package libpcap0.8-dev that you're missing, which includes the appropriate symlink from libpcap.so to libpcap.so.0.8. According to this answer it's a Debian convention that the unversioned symlinks are part of the -dev-packages.
