Re^4: Need help compiling Net::Pcap on Ubuntu 8.04

alexm,

Thanks again. I had wondered about whether the warnings were really critical or not, so thanks for that. I usually never sudo until the install step, and most of the time it is fine, except in this case I got the error:

touch: cannot touch `Pcap.bs': Permission denied
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when running make, so that is why I used sudo. After that I just got somewhat paranoid that maybe not being root was causing some of my problems, and I just decided to sudo with everything figuring it couldn't hurt.

I took you suggestion to go ahead and run "make test" and I get the following:

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00-load...........# Testing Net::Pcap 0.14 under Perl 5.008008
t/00-load...........ok                                                
+       
t/01-api............ok                                                
+       
t/02-lookup.........ok                                                
+       
t/03-openlive.......ok 1/14                                           
+       
#   Failed test ' - $err must be set: SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device'
#   at t/03-openlive.t line 70.
t/03-openlive.......NOK 13#                   'SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such 
+device'
#     doesn't match '/^(?:bind|ioctl): (?:No such device)/'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 14.
t/03-openlive.......dubious                                           
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    Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 13
    Failed 1/14 tests, 92.86% okay
t/04-loop...........ok 1/195
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It just hangs there. It looks like maybe it can't find my network device?

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Re^5: Need help compiling Net::Pcap on Ubuntu 8.04 by alexm (Chaplain) on Jul 22, 2008 at 07:49 UTC
It seems an error in Net-Pcap-0.14 since I tried Net-Pcap-0.16 and that error is gone. While performing tests as root (needed for several of them), I even got unexpected successful results with 0.16: `All tests successful (9 subtests UNEXPECTEDLY SUCCEEDED), 9 tests and +93 subtests skipped. Files=30, Tests=1609, 315 wallclock secs ( 1.07 cusr + 0.15 csys = 1 +.22 CPU)` [download] Please, note that some tests take quite time to finish, hence the 315 wallclock secs.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Need help compiling Net::Pcap on Ubuntu 8.04 by Anonymous Monk on Aug 06, 2008 at 15:30 UTC
you only need to install from synaptic libnet-pcap-perl This package contains Net::Pcap module. Buckaroo. Argentina	[reply]


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