Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Respectful request for help (from a Linux Idiot)

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From: "Heal, Kenneth" <kheal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:43:07 +0200
Hi

Probably the easiest way to do this is to use the RedHat supplied packages, which you can get from https://rhn.redhat.com/ (see also http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-136.html)

You will basically see a package called ethereal and one called ethereal-gnome.  I would suggest grabbing both.  Ethereal will give you the core code but no GUI (you do get tethereal the text version).  Ethereal-gnome gives you the actual ethereal binary which can be run under X.  You do not need the src rpms; as a "newbie" go for the precompiled 'it should work out of the box' rpms.

IIRC you will need to do a find for ethereal and tethereal if you use the sourceforge/ethereal supplied binaries and create symbolic links to the binaries so they show up in a directory which is in your path... I am a bit rusty so someone else may be able to detail this more.

Interestingly enough the ethereal site has older binaries than RedHat...  As you know the http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/rpms/ directory gives you this:

ethereal-0.10.0a-1.RH9.src.rpm                18-Dec-2003 18:01  4.2M  source RPM
- src files... skip

ethereal-base-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm          13-Dec-2003 19:00  3.2M  Intel binary RPM
ethereal-base-net-snmp-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm 13-Dec-2003 19:00  3.2M  Intel binary RPM
ethereal-base-no-snmp-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm  13-Dec-2003 19:00  3.2M  Intel binary RPM

You will to pick one of these, I typically use ethereal-base-net-snmp if I use any of these; the difference is which SNMP engine is used (or not at all).


ethereal-debuginfo-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm     13-Dec-2003 19:01  9.0M  Intel binary RPM

Normally you can skip this unless you are trying to debug.


ethereal-gnome-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm         13-Dec-2003 19:01   11K  Intel binary RPM

It is probably worth getting this one too if you are using RedHat + gnome as this will give you the GUI.


ethereal-gtk+-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm          13-Dec-2003 19:01  2.4M  Intel binary RPM
ethereal-gtk+-net-snmp-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm 13-Dec-2003 19:02  2.4M  Intel binary RPM
ethereal-gtk+-no-snmp-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm  13-Dec-2003 19:02  2.4M  Intel binary RPM

This is a version of ethereal for the GTk+ system.


ethereal-kde-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm           13-Dec-2003 19:02   19K  Intel binary RPM

This is ethereal for the KDE windowing system.


ethereal-usermode-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm      13-Dec-2003 19:02  5.5K  Intel binary RPM

I am afraid I have no idea about this one.


I hope these ramblings are of some help!

regards
Kenneth Heal

-----Original Message-----
From: cp everi [mailto:cpeveri@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:25 PM
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Subject: [Ethereal-users] Respectfull request for help (from a Linux Idiot)


I'm running RH Enterprise WS and am trying to install Ethereal 0.10. I understand how to use the RPM manager - but am tearing what hair I have left trying to get the install.

First - I'm not sure what the difference is between all of the listed packages on http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/rpms/

I understand I need to start with the base package - but how does one discover the diffreence between ethereal-base-net-snmp-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm and  ethereal-base-no-snmp-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm? These packages look the same to me and I've not got a clue what the difference is - or how to discover what the difference is.

Second, when I try to install ethereal-base-0.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm I get an error that says udc-snmp is needed. I'm not sure how to find this package - or how to get the correct version.

Any direction towards a how-to would be most appreciated




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