Installing Scapy on Raspberry Pi 5

Option 1: Install via apt (Recommended)

sudo apt-get install python3-scapy

This is the safest method and integrates with the system package manager.

Since this is a system-level monitoring tool that runs as root, you can use:

sudo pip3 install --break-system-packages scapy

If you prefer a virtual environment (though less convenient for root tools):

python3 -m venv ~/scapy-env
source ~/scapy-env/bin/activate
pip install scapy

Then run the script with:

sudo ~/scapy-env/bin/python3 rpi_capture_ra_ta_python.py 11

For this use case (system monitoring tool), Option 2 is acceptable:

sudo pip3 install --break-system-packages scapy