0003920: libnl-genl-3-200 does not create the libnl-genl-3.so symlink

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003920	Kali Linux	Kali Package Bug	public	2017-03-12 18:13	2017-03-13 09:39

Reporter	singe	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	2016.2

Summary	0003920: libnl-genl-3-200 does not create the libnl-genl-3.so symlink
Description	The libnl-genl-3-200 package does not create the /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnl-genl-3.so symlink (linked to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnl-genl-3.so.200.22.0) at the time of writing. This causes any linking to the libnl-genl-3 library to fail (for example hostepd v2.6). This is simply fixed by creating the symlink: ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnl-genl-3.so.200.22.0 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnl-genl-3.so
Steps To Reproduce	ls /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnl-genl-3.so produces "No such file or directory" Or if you'd like an example application that fails to compile with it: git clone -b hostapd-2.6 https://github.com/sensepost/hostapd-mana cd hostapd-mana/hostapd make Will produce: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnl-genl-3 collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile:1063: recipe for target 'hostapd' failed make: *** [hostapd] Error 1
Additional Information	This was a fresh deploy of a Kali 2016.2 VM (downloaded 12 March 2017) after all packages updated.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-03-12 18:13	singe	New Issue
2017-03-13 09:39	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2017-03-13 09:39	rhertzog	Status	new => closed
2017-03-13 09:39	rhertzog	Resolution	open => no change required
2017-03-13 09:39	rhertzog	Note Added: 0006492

rhertzog 2017-03-13 09:39 administrator ~0006492	There's no bug here, /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnl-genl-3.so is part of libnl-genl-3-dev, you always need the corresponding -dev package when you want to link against a library.