Snort install issue on debian 6 with libpcre - libpcre library not found

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Published on 2012-06-02T02:25:58Z Indexed on 2012/07/02 3:18 UTC
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I've read the manual on snort.org for installing snort on Debian but am still having an issue. Does anyone know how to resolve this? I've tried installing the libpcre3 amd libpcre3-dev packages by using apt-get and also manually installing by downloading the latest version off the tcpdump website. Any ideas?

Checking for pcre-compile in -l pcre...no Error! Libpcre library not found. Get it from http://www.pcre.org

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