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libpcap を Homebrew, apk, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, apt, zypper でインストール

libpcap のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

インストールコマンドセキュリティノート

インストール

追加のインストールコマンド

macOS

Homebrew確認済み · 100%
brew install libpcap

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPorts確認済み · 94%
sudo port install libpcap

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

Linux

Alpine Linux apk確認済み · 92%
sudo apk add libpcap

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

Fedora dnf確認済み · 92%
sudo dnf install libpcap

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · libpcap · ソース: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nix確認済み · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#libpcap

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

Arch Linux pacman確認済み · 92%
sudo pacman -S libpcap

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

Debian apt確認済み · 92%
sudo apt install libpcap-dev

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

openSUSE zypper確認済み · 92%
sudo zypper install libpcap-devel

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

概要

パッケージ概要

Portable library for network traffic capture

コマンドとエイリアス

  • pcap-config

履歴

プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

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.

プロジェクトの歴史

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.

採用の歴史

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.

使われ方

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.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

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.

タイムライン

  • 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.

セキュリティ状態

リスクレベル: グリーン

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

リスク分類器

リスク グリーン · 信頼度 低 · appliance

理由

  • library-like package without higher-risk signals

信号

  • metadata:library-like

インストール挙動

  • formula メタデータに Homebrew post-install フックは記録されていません。
  • Homebrew bottle メタデータは 6 個のプラットフォームターゲットで利用できます。

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実行可能ファイル

インストールされる実行可能ファイル

コマンド種類公開範囲メモ
pcap-configcliグローバル実行可能ファイル

鮮度

バージョンと鮮度

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ページ生成日2026-07-10
マネージャ版1.10.6
マネージャ更新日
ローカルデータOK
上流not checked
検出された最新未検出

https://www.tcpdump.org/

  • 情報No package-manager update timestamp was available.信頼度 低
  • 情報Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.tcpdump.org/信頼度 none

インストールメタデータ

パッケージメタデータ

パッケージキーbrew:libpcap
バージョン1.10.6
パッケージマネージャHomebrew
パッケージマネージャページhttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/libpcap
ホームページhttps://www.tcpdump.org/
リポジトリhttps://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap
上流ドキュメントhttps://www.tcpdump.org/manpages
ライセンスBSD-3-Clause
ソースアーカイブhttps://www.tcpdump.org/release/libpcap-1.10.6.tar.gz
Bottle利用可能 (対象 arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install未定義
サービス宣言なし

レジストリ情報

ソースデータベース詳細

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

ソースデータベース一致

他のパッケージマネージャ記録

一致は外部パッケージマネージャインデックスから取得され、ローカルの Automic Vault パッケージリンクとは分けて表示されます。

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 依存関係
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • 1 提供
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • 1 提供
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • 1 提供
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • 1 提供
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • 2 提供
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • 2 提供
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • 1 提供
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • 2 提供
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • 1 提供
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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 依存関係
  • 1 提供
  • normalized package name match
  • 一致条件: 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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