Workarounds.md

To work around Big Sur installation issues for pypcap dependency:

Instead of using pip to install pypac, we can install manually with a small modification.

Download the source ZIP from: https://github.com/pynetwork/pypcap

Unpack to a non restricted location, I used /User/Shared/

Modify the file setup.py

Locate line 87

Comment out line 87 and 88

Add a new line: lib_file_path = '/usr/lib'

The block of code should now look like this:

if not lib_file_path:
    print("None of the following found: %s" % lib_files)
    #sys.exit(1)
    #return
    lib_file_path = '/usr/lib'

Save and exit

Start a command line at this folder Install the package manually:

python setup.py install