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@@ -48,13 +48,12 @@ The application can then be run using ```sniffnet [OPTIONS]```
Build on Linux
- In order to build and run Sniffnet on Linux systems, install the libraries and header files for the libpcap library. For example:
+
+ In order to build and run Sniffnet on Linux systems, install the libraries and header files for the libpcap library:
+ `sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev`
- - On Debian based Linux: ```install libpcap-dev```.
-
- - On Fedora Linux: ```install libpcap-devel```.
-
- - Note that if you are not running as root, you need to set capabilities like so: ```sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip path/to/bin```.
+ Note that if you are not running as root, you need to set capabilities like so:
+ `sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip ~/.cargo/bin/sniffnet`