Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] package 0.9.3.3 on RedHat Linux 7.3 without GUI
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:04:49PM +0200, Helmut.Emmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've got a problem running ethereal 0.9.3.3 on my new installed Red Hat
> Linux 7.3.
> After installing the RPM I can only run tethereal. There's no application
> called ethereal.
>
> I've found the following description on rpmfind.net:
>
> Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.
>
> This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
> library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
> documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged
> separately to GTK+ package.
Well, the page at
http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/7.3/i386/ethereal-0.9.3-3.i386.html
has that description, but it also says that the "ethereal-0.9.3-3" RPM
"Provides" "ethereal" and "Requires" "gtk+ >= 1.2.0".
I.e., that page appears either to
1) say that the GUI *is* part of that package (because the only
way it can "provide" "ethereal" is if you install the RPM and
it install an "ethereal" program, which would be the
GTK+-based GUI application
or
2) falsely state what it "Provides" and "Requires".
If that's the package you used, I'd suggest that you file a bug
on it on the Red Hat Bugzilla site. (If they want to have a package
that *doesn't* depend on GTK+, and thus *doesn't* provide Ethereal, they
should call it "tethereal-0.9.3-3" or something such as that, not call
it "ethereal-0.9.3-3" and thus imply that you actually get Ethereal if
you install it.)
You might want to try the RPM on the ethereal.com local archive:
ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/rpms/
(but note that I don't run Red Hat - or any other RPM-based Linux
distribution; my home Linux partition runs Debian - and was not involved
in the preparation of those RPMs, so further questions about the RPMs
should *NOT* be sent only to me, they should be sent to "ethereal-users"
or to whoever prepared the RPMs).
