Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Need help on installing WS on Centos 5

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

Rajesh Mahadevan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to install wireshark and wireshark-gnome rpm on a 
> server running CentOS 5. This is an i386 (32-bit) server.
>
> I did multiple searches on the internet and found that my server 
> requires "wireshark-<version>.i386.rpm" and 
> "wireshark-gnome-<version>.i386.rpm" packages. The difficulty I am 
> having is to find the right rpm version of wireshark and where to find 
> them. My server has "libpcap-0.9.4-11.el5.rpm" package installed and 
> "openssl-devel-0.9.8b-8.3.e15_0.2" & "openssl-0.9.8b-8.3.e15_0.2" 
> packages installed.
>
> Someone provided me two wireshark RPMs : 
> "wireshark-0.99.4-EL3.1.i386.rpm" and 
> "wireshark-gnome-0.99.4.EL3.1i386.rpm".
>
> I tried to install but it failed complaining "Failed Dependencies".  Any 
> help is highly appreciated.

Those are RH EL3 RPMs--I would expect some dependencies trouble trying 
to install them on the equivalent of RH EL5.

Why not just do a "yum install wireshark-gnome" and pull the Wireshark 
RPMs directly from CentOS?  (Or "up2date wireshark-gnome" if you have 
up2date installed and it works.)