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fistrosan

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Registered: 2020-04-01

Posts: 172

[SOLVED] libpcap issues

Hi all,

Getting some broken dependency when I try to update via pacman.

":: installing libpcap (1.10.7-1) breaks dependency 'libpcap=1.10.6' required by lib32-libpcap"

while libpcap is in base, seems like lib32-libpcap comes from the AUR. No idea as to why I have this installed really (maybe something related to steam and vulkan?).

Anyhow, I guess the solution is to replace it with the non-orphan lib32-libpcap-git from the AUR that seems to be 1.10.7-1 ?

How should I proceed to do this the cleanest way possible ?

Thanks for your help.

Update: SOLVED by deleting lib32-libpcap after confirming that no packages depend on it.

Last edited by fistrosan (2026-09-14 08:55:11)

Whoracle

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Registered: 2010-11-02

Posts: 242

Re: [SOLVED] libpcap issues

Remove lib32-pcap until something breaks. It was dropped from multilib, afaik. Had the same issue, and so far no adverse effect. Probably some leftover from way back when. I haven't tried wireshark since I removed it though

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 826

Re: [SOLVED] libpcap issues

No idea as to why I have this installed really (maybe something related to steam and vulkan?).

You can check which installed packages require lib32-libpcap by

pacman -Qi lib32-libpcap

Or check "Required by" list at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib3 … =1#pkgreqs.
If no installed package requires it, just uninstall lib32-libpcap.