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Installer libpcap avec Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, apt, zypper

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de libpcap pour les workflows d'agents IA.

Commande d'installationNotes de sécurité

installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install libpcap

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install libpcap

MacPorts ports tree · net/libpcap/Portfile · Source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add libpcap

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · libpcap · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%
sudo dnf install libpcap

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · libpcap · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#libpcap

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/li/libpcap/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanvérifié · 92%
sudo pacman -S libpcap

Arch Linux sync databases · libpcap · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

Debian aptvérifié · 92%
sudo apt install libpcap-dev

Debian stable package indexes · libpcap-dev · Source: deb.debian.org

openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install libpcap-devel

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · libpcap-devel · Source: download.opensuse.org

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Portable library for network traffic capture

Commandes et alias

  • pcap-config

historique

Historique du projet et usages

libpcap is the portable packet-capture library maintained with tcpdump by The Tcpdump Group. It gives programs a common C API for capturing packets and compiling packet filters across Unix-like operating systems whose native capture interfaces differ.

Historique du projet

The project grew out of the tcpdump and Berkeley Packet Filter lineage. Steve McCanne's SharkFest 2011 talk traces the packet-capture work back to a 1988 Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory setting, while the 1993 BPF paper documents the kernel/user-level filtering architecture that made efficient capture practical.

The Tcpdump Group later maintained libpcap as a separate library paired with tcpdump. The repository and CHANGES file show long-running attention to operating-system capture backends, filter syntax, savefile reading, remote capture support, and ABI concerns.

Historique d'adoption

libpcap became infrastructure rather than an end-user application: tcpdump, analyzers, monitors, and security tools can link against one API while relying on each operating system's capture mechanism underneath. The upstream README explicitly addresses Linux distributions and BSD systems that ship libpcap and warns packagers not to encode release-specific sonames.

Its adoption is also tied to the pcap file and filter culture around tcpdump: packet captures, reproducible troubleshooting, and command-line network forensics all use libpcap conventions even when users interact through higher-level tools.

Modes d'utilisation

Developers use libpcap to enumerate capture devices, open live or saved captures, compile packet filters, and read packet records. Package-manager users usually install it as a dependency of network tools or as development headers for software that needs packet capture.

The small `pcap-config` utility is package-nerd visible because build systems and ports use it to discover compiler and linker flags for libpcap.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

libpcap matters because it is a thin but durable portability layer over messy kernel capture APIs. It is the package that turns packet capture from an operating-system-specific problem into a linkable library dependency.

It is also a classic packaging stress test: headers, shared-library ABI, privileged capture behavior, optional capture backends, and security-sensitive parsers all meet in one small C library.

Chronologie

  • 1988: tcpdump and BPF lineage begins in the Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory packet-capture work described by Steve McCanne.
  • 1993: The BSD Packet Filter paper documents the efficient packet filtering architecture behind the tcpdump/libpcap family.
  • 2003-11-12: The libpcap CHANGES file records the 0.8 release summary.
  • 2008-10-27: The libpcap CHANGES file records the 1.0.0 release summary.
  • 2023-04-07: The libpcap CHANGES file records the 1.10.4 release summary.

Related projects

  • tcpdump is libpcap's sibling command-line analyzer and the most direct companion project.
  • BPF is the filtering architecture behind libpcap filter compilation and efficient packet selection.
  • WinPcap and Npcap are Windows-oriented relatives in the pcap ecosystem, while Wireshark is a major downstream packet-analysis application in the same capture-file culture.

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : vert

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

Classificateur de risque

risque vert · confiance faible · appliance

Pourquoi

  • library-like package without higher-risk signals

Signaux

  • metadata:library-like

Comportement d'installation

  • Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
  • Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.

Revue recommandée

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exécutables

Exécutables installés

CommandeTypeExpositionNote
pcap-configcliexécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-10
version du gestionnaire1.10.6
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontnot checked
dernière version détectéenon détecté

https://www.tcpdump.org/

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.tcpdump.org/confiance none

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquetbrew:libpcap
Version1.10.6
Gestionnaire de paquetsHomebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquetshttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/libpcap
Page d'accueilhttps://www.tcpdump.org/
Dépôthttps://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap
Docs amonthttps://www.tcpdump.org/manpages
LicenceBSD-3-Clause
Archive sourcehttps://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.10.6.tar.gz
Bouteilledisponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrewnon défini
Serviceaucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namelibpcap
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyyes
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Debian apt95%

libpcap-dev 1.10.5-2

development library for libpcap (transitional package)

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo apt install libpcap-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 1 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libpcap-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libpcap0.8-dev 1.10.5-2

development library and header files for libpcap0.8t64

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo apt install libpcap0.8-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 3 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libpcap0.8-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libpcap0.8t64 1.10.5-2

system interface for user-level packet capture

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo apt install libpcap0.8t64
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 2 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libpcap0.8t64 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

libpcap

nix profile install nixpkgs#libpcap
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/libpcap/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

libpcap-dev 1.10.4-4.1ubuntu3

development library for libpcap (transitional package)

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo apt install libpcap-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 1 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libpcap-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libpcap0.8-dev 1.10.4-4.1ubuntu3

development library and header files for libpcap0.8t64

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo apt install libpcap0.8-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 4 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libpcap0.8-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

libpcap0.8t64 1.10.4-4.1ubuntu3

system interface for user-level packet capture

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo apt install libpcap0.8t64
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 3 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libpcap0.8t64 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

libpcap 1.10.6-r1

Portable library for network traffic capture

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo apk add libpcap
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libpcap from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

libpcap-dev 1.10.6-r1

Portable library for network traffic capture (development files)

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo apk add libpcap-dev
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libpcap-dev from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

libpcap-doc 1.10.6-r1

Portable library for network traffic capture (documentation)

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo apk add libpcap-doc
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: libpcap-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

libpcap 1.10.6-2.fc44

A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo dnf install libpcap
  • License: ISC AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause-UC
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 4 Dépendances
  • 2 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libpcap from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

libpcap-devel 1.10.6-2.fc44

Libraries and header files for the libpcap library

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo dnf install libpcap-devel
  • License: ISC AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause-UC
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 5 Dépendances
  • 2 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: libpcap-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

libpcap 1.10.6-1

A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo pacman -S libpcap
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 4 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: libpcap from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

libpcap-devel 1.10.6-1.4

A Library for Network Sniffers

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo zypper install libpcap-devel
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 5 Dépendances
  • 2 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libpcap-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

libpcap-devel-32bit 1.10.6-1.4

A Library for Network Sniffers

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo zypper install libpcap-devel-32bit
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 3 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libpcap-devel-32bit from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

libpcap-devel-static 1.10.6-1.4

A Library for Network Sniffers

https://www.tcpdump.org/

sudo zypper install libpcap-devel-static
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: libpcap
  • 5 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Libpcap
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: libpcap-devel-static from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

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