Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] GUI in Linux

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brant I. Stevens wrote:
> You will need to be running an X-aware terminal (like X-term)

*If* you're running Ethereal from the command line.  It can also be run 
directly from KDE, and probably also from GNOME and other UN*X+X desktops.

> and make 
> sure that your environmental variables for DISPLAY are set correctly.

If run from the GUI, that'll be done automatically.  If your xterm (or 
Konsole or...) are run from the GUI, they'll have their DISPLAY 
environment variable set correctly - and should pass that on to whatever 
shell they run in the terminal.

The original person's problem was probably the packaging of Ethereal - 
for whatever reason, Ethereal tends to be packaged in multiple RPMs, and 
the "core" RPM doesn't actually include the Ethereal program itself, you 
have to install the GTK+ RPM or the GNOME RPM or whatever the RPM with 
the GUI versioin is called.