Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] install from source on SuSe 10

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Ham wrote:
[...]
> wireshark: error while loading shared libraries: libwiretap.so.0: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> The necessary file is in /usr/local/lib, which is included in /etc/ld.so.conf.
>
> If I do this, it works:
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
> wireshark
>
> Although (another problem) I have to be root to access eth0.
>
> So two questions:
> 1) what do I have to do to let wireshark find the library?

I'm not sure, but...  Did you run ldconfig?  That updates the 
configuration based on what's in /etc/ld.so.conf .

> 2) what do I have to do to make eth0 available to an ordinary user?

Make sure /usr/local/bin/dumpcap is owned by root and then:

chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/dumpcap