Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] RPM installation

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From: Richard Urwin <RUrwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:57:44 -0000
> I am using Linux Mandrake 9.0 and used the RPM command to 
> install the software. It seems to have installed OK but I 
> can't find where the files were installed. Any help would be 
> appreciated.

And failing all the help you've been given so far, use the source. I
failed to get the RPM working in my MDK9.0, so I downloaded the source
for all the libraries and Ethereal and built them. I was amazed at how
simple it was, after having to fiddle with the configuration files under
Windows. Every package is the same; you just use three commands:
"configure", "make" and then, as root, "make install".

It's a nice feeling to build from source, and Ethereal, at least on
MDK9.0, appears to be a good one to start out with.

BTW: Knowing the little I do about MDK9.0, my guess would be that the
RPM loads into /usr/bin. The source install goes into /usr/local/bin.

--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."

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