Kismet 2010-07-R1

#1 5th August 2010, 03:56 PM

I am currently trying to install Kismet from source and running into the following issue:

configure: WARNING: Compiling without libpcap support.
configure: error: Could not find working libpcap. Libpcap is vital from the majority of capture sources Kismet supports. It must be explicitly disabled.

I tried installing the latest libpcap from www.tcpdump.org --> libpcap-1.1.1.tar.gz

When I run ./configure on this extract, I get the following message:

Your operating system's lex is insufficient to compile libpcap. flex is a lex replacement that has many advantages, including being able to compile libpcap. For more information, see http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html.

PabloTwo · #2 5th August 2010, 04:05 PM

Try,

Code:

yum install libcap-devel libcap-ng-devel

#3 5th August 2010, 04:17 PM

You're the man Pablo!

Worked like a charm.

Thanks.