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mongosniff: depends strictly on libpcap versions, fixing

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      Linux, libpcap > 0.9

      This came up recently (will link relevant issues). The resolution is to symlink the older version manually to the newer version. Error looks like this:

      [root@host /]# ./bin/mongosniff 
/opt/data/mongodb/install/bin/mongosniff: error while loading shared libraries: libpcap.so.0.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

      This happens even when a newer version of libpcap is installed (1.0 for example). The resolution is to symlink the missing dependency to the newer version somewhere in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

      The easiest way to do this is to symlink the old version in the same folder as the newer version:

      [root@host lib64]# cd /path/to/lib/libpcap.so.1.0.0
[root@host lib64]# ln -s libpcap.so.1.0.0 libpcap.so.1.0.0 libpcap.so.0.9
[root@host lib64]# ls -l libpcap.so*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     16 Sep 15 08:50 libpcap.so.0.9 -> libpcap.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     16 Jul 26 21:39 libpcap.so.1 -> libpcap.so.1.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 225808 Nov 11  2010 libpcap.so.1.0.0

            Assignee:
            sam.kleinman Sam Kleinman (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            adamc Adam Comerford
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              11 years, 27 weeks, 3 days ago