Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: question about the tethereal version?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:57:40 -0700
À½­ wrote:
Now I have two question:
1. I have installed the ethereal-pre-20041019 on my redhat9.0. and It is
successful to install.But when I run the command:"tethereal -version",it display
 as :
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[root@localhost ethereal-0.10.7]# tethereal -version
tethereal: Symbol `pcap_version' has different size in shared object, consider
re-linking tethereal 0.9.8, with GLib 1.2.10, with libpcap 0.7., with libz
1.1.4,with Net-SNMP 5.0.6
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 I have install the last version of libpcap.Its version is not 0.8.Why does it
report the version is 0.7 ??

Because 0.9.8 is an old version of Ethereal/Tethereal, and it only reported the version of libpcap with which it was built. If it was built with a shared-library version of libpcap, the version with which it was built isn't necessarily the version with which it's running.

You probably installed a shared-library libpcap version other than 0.7.

By the way, the "tethereal" you're running is *NOT* from ethereal-pre-20041019, it's from Ethereal 0.9.8.