Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal from the Command Line

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From: Marco van den Bovenkamp <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:10:31 +0100
Phillip Thompson wrote:


Am I asking the impossible in trying to run ethereal from the command
line. It works fine from within KDE or if I shell out to a terminal
session. If I try to run ethereal from a linux command line prompt all I
get is  the following line

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Have I missed something ?
Yes, the fact that Ethereal is a graphical application and needs X to run (on Unixes at least). If you don't have that and are running on a bare command line, use tethereal. 

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		Regards,

			Marco.