[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 22, 2003, at 8:09 AM, Paris Woods wrote:

> Can someone explain the differences between the folllowing Linux RPMs?  
>  I am expecially confused by the "net-snmp" and "no-snmp" versions.   
> Does "net-snmp" mean it is packaged with the appropriate snmp files?   
> Also what is the usermode rpm?
>
> ethereal-base-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm
> ethereal-base-net-snmp-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm
> ethereal-base-no-snmp-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm
> ethereal-debuginfo-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm
> ethereal-gnome-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm
> ethereal-gtk+-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm
> ethereal-gtk+-net-snmp-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm
> ethereal-gtk+-no-snmp-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm
> ethereal-kde-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm
> ethereal-usermode-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm

I'm *not* an expert on those (or on RPM in general), but it appears  
that rpm.pbone.net has some information on various Ethereal 0.9.15  
RPMs:

ethereal-base-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm:

	http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=4&idpl=712344&com=ethereal-base 
-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm.html

	"Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating  
systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and  
filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins  
and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged  
separately to GTK+ package."

	This is different from the ethereal-base-net-snmp and  
ethereal-base-no-snmp RPMs; I don't know what the difference is.

ethereal-base-net-snmp-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm:

	http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=4&idpl=712346&com=ethereal-base- 
net-snmp-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm.html

	"Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating  
systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and  
filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins  
and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged  
separately to GTK+ package. It does not require any SNMP libraries"  
(this is probably a typo, as it probably *does* require Net-SNMP -  
Richard?)

	The contents (linked to from that URL) don't show any SNMP files;  
you'd probably install Net-SNMP to get them.

ethereal-base-no-snmp-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm:

	http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=4&idpl=712350&com=ethereal-base- 
no-snmp-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm.html

	"Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating  
systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and  
filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins  
and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged  
separately to GTK+ package. It does not require any SNMP libraries"

ethereal-debuginfo-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm:

	http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=4&idpl=712348&com=ethereal- 
debuginfo-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm.html

	"This package provides debug information for package ethereal. Debug  
information is useful when developing applications that use this  
package or when debugging this package."

	The contents include source, ".debug" versions of plugins, and  
".debug" versions of binaries - it might be that the standard versions  
are stripped of their symbols, and the ".debug" versions have the  
symbols.

ethereal-gnome-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm:

	"Contains ethereal icon for Gnome 1.2 and desktop integration file"

	Stuff to use with GNOME.

ethereal-gtk+-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm:

	http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=4&idpl=712352&com=ethereal-gtk+ 
-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm.html

	"Contains GTK+ GUI ie. the ethereal -application."

I presume the -net-snmp and -no-snmp variants of it bear the same  
relationship to it as is the case with ethereal-base.

ethereal-kde-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm:

	http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=4&idpl=712343&com=ethereal-kde 
-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm.html

	"Contains ethereal icons for KDE2 and desktop integration files"

	Stuff to use with KDE (probably supports KDE3 as well).

ethereal-usermode-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm:

	http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=4&idpl=712345&com=ethereal- 
usermode-0.9.15-1.9.i386.rpm.html

	"Contains ethereal integration to usermode execution package"

	I have no idea what the "usermode execution package" is.  The files in  
it are:

		/etc/pam.d/ethereal

		/etc/security/console.apps/ethereal

		/usr/bin/ethereal

Richard, we should really have something to explain what all these  
things are....