Missing libcap error is confusing

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Missing libcap error is confusing #3

Open dionyziz opened 8 years ago

dionyziz commented 8 years ago

Making ncdns with a missing pcap dependency produces peculiar errors that are difficult to debug. An error indicating that "pcap is required, please run apt-get such and such" would be much more user-friendly.

hlandau commented 8 years ago

You're confusing libpcap with libcap. libpcap concerns packet capture. libcap concerns Linux capability sets. Anyway, maybe...