How To Install ghc-pcap on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-pcap in Fedora 36. ghc-pcap is A system-independent interface for user-level packet capture

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-pcap on Fedora 36.

What is ghc-pcap

Haskell bindings for libpcap. Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Libpcap can provide network statistics collection, security monitoring and network debugging. Since almost every system vendor provides a different interface for packet capture, the libpcap authors created this system-independent API to ease in porting and to alleviate the need for several system-dependent packet capture modules in each application. Install libpcap if you need to do low-level network traffic monitoring on your network.

We can use yum or dnf to install ghc-pcap on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghc-pcap.

Install ghc-pcap on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ghc-pcap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghc-pcap

Install ghc-pcap on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ghc-pcap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghc-pcap

How To Uninstall ghc-pcap on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ghc-pcap package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ghc-pcap

ghc-pcap Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/95ae31926079bf66ef497934bbb4283ca4a17d
/usr/lib64/libHSpcap-0.4.5.2-LfYMTQevFTj2Xp0fRa6cFp-ghc8.10.5.so
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-pcap
/usr/share/licenses/ghc-pcap/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghc-pcap on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).