Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] FW: [Wireshark-users] wireshark (with SMI) install on ubuntu issues ...(sending

[Balint Reczey <balint.reczey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 01/10/2011 04:27 PM, Sandor, Todd (Todd) wrote:
> To reach a wider audience, sending this to the dev email as well …
>
> *From:* wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Sandor,
> Todd (Todd)
> *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 10:14 AM
> *To:* wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [Wireshark-users] wireshark (with SMI) install on ubuntu
> issues ...(sending again ..)..
>
> (had errors in previous email, sending again) …
>
> Hi - need some help getting wireshark with SMI (for decoding snmp via
> MIBs) working on ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Wireshark shipped is compiled with SMI support:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/amd64/wireshark-common/1.2.7-1

> I can not find a package that includes wireshark with SMI ready for
> install, so I googled and found:
"apt-get install wireshark snmp-mibs-downloader" should make the trick.
...
> ::/usr/local/wireshark(504)$ sudo apt-get install libsmi2-common
> libsmi2-dev libsmi2ldbl
>
> Reading package lists... Done
>
> Building dependency tree
>
> Reading state information... Done
....


> adduser: No UID is available in the range 100-999 (FIRST_SYS_UID -
> LAST_SYS_UID).
>
> adduser: The user `postfix' was not created.
>
> dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
>
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx:
>
> bsd-mailx depends on default-mta | mail-transport-agent; however:
>
> Package default-mta is not installed.
>
> Package postfix which provides default-mta is not configured yet.
>
> Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>
> Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet.
>
> dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure):
>
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>
> Setting up libsmi2-common (0.4.8+dfsg2-2) ...
>
> No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
> followup error from a previous failure.
>
> Setting up libsmi2ldbl (0.4.8+dfsg2-2) ...
>
> Setting up libsmi2-dev (0.4.8+dfsg2-2) ...
>
> Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
>
> ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
>
> /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libMrm.so.3 is not a symbolic link
>
> /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libXm.so.3 is not a symbolic link
>
> /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libUil.so.3 is not a symbolic link
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>
> postfix
>
> bsd-mailx
>
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Your system is broken, you should fix it first. Please ask for help on ubuntu 
users list.

> I assume if I can get this SMI stuff installed, that if I follow the
> rest of the compile/install that wireshark (below) with SMI will work…?
>
> After installing "devscripts" via Synaptic Package Manager (so could use
> the "dpkg-buildpackage" command) I was able to get verion 1.2.7 of
> wireshark installed/working using the command below, but when I go into
> Preferences Name Resolution, the options to configure the MIB
> paths/modules are not available.
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep wireshark
>
> cd wireshark-1.2.7/
>
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc
>
> cd ..
>
> sudo dpkg -i tshark_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb wireshark-common_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb
> wireshark_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb

You don't need to do this. The official packages should work.
> But, I can’t decode smmp mibs when I run this wireshark:
You need to install snmp-mibs-downloader as descibed in
/usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian .

Cheers,
Balint