[Breen Mullins <bmullins@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:45, Guy Harris wrote:


> I.e., that page appears either to
> 
> 	1) say that the GUI *is* part of that package (because the only
> 	   way it can "provide" "ethereal" is if you install the RPM and
> 	   it install an "ethereal" program, which would be the
> 	   GTK+-based GUI application
> 
> or
> 
> 	2) falsely state what it "Provides" and "Requires".
> 
> If that's the package you used, I'd suggest that you file a bug
> on it on the Red Hat Bugzilla site.  (If they want to have a package
> that *doesn't* depend on GTK+, and thus *doesn't* provide Ethereal, they
> should call it "tethereal-0.9.3-3" or something such as that, not call
> it "ethereal-0.9.3-3" and thus imply that you actually get Ethereal if
> you install it.)

Sigh. Everybody's Favorite Distributor <tm> strikes again.

Red Hat have divided the binary RPMs into two. Installing the ethereal
package gets you tethereal, editcap, and the support files. The package
ethereal-gnome gives you:
$ rpm -qlp ethereal-gnome-0.9.3-3.i386.rpm 
/usr/bin/ethereal
/usr/sbin/ethereal
/usr/share/gnome/apps/Internet/ethereal.desktop
/usr/share/man/man1/ethereal.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/ethereal.png

so if you want the GUI that's the package to install.

Guy, you may want to add this one to the FAQ to forestall the flood 
of questions.

Helmut, if you file that bug in Bugzilla let us know the number. I'll
gladly vote for it.

Cheers,

Breen
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Breen Mullins
SQA Engineer 
Asante Technologies, Inc.
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