How to install libpcap on Ubuntu 12.10

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I haven't used libpcap since I posted this blog last time (2011). But many people may not get it work following the old steps below. Therefore, I tried to install libpcap myself on the latest Ubuntu 12.10.

Here are the steps:

Download libpcap-1.3.0.tar.gz from www.tcpdump.org/ and decompress it;
Download flex-2.5.37.tar.gz from flex.sourceforge.net/ and decompress it;
Download bison-2.7.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/ and decompress it;
Download m4-1.4.16.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/ and decompress it;
Then, enter into directories m4-1.4.16, bison-2.7, flex-2.5.37 and libpcap-1.3.0 in order, and execute the following commands:
$ sudo ./configure
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install
** Basically, just find the latest version from these websites to download.

Open /etc/ld.so.conf as root, and add the following two lines to it:

/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib

Then execute command:
$ sudo ldconfig


SOURCE:http://xgjonathan.blogspot.sg/2011/04/how-to-install-libpcap-on-ubuntu.html