Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ld.so.1: ethereal: fatal: libpcre.so.0: openfailed: No such

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:13:07 -0800
Plantier, Spencer wrote:
Thanks for you help now I get this error:

(ethereal:1435): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

You need to have X running on the machine you have on your desk (are you running Solaris on a desktop workstation - in which case you should have X running - or on some machine not on or beside your desk, with a Windows PC or OS X Mac on your desk, in which case:

Windows - you'll need to install some X11-server-for-Windows package, e.g. Hummingbird's product, and run that;

OS X - if you're running Panther, install Apple's X11 if it's not already installed, and start it, otherwise you'll have to find a version of X11, e.g. one from Fink).

If you're not running Ethereal on the machine on your desk, you will also have to

1) ensure that the DISPLAY environment variable on the Solaris machine is set to {your desktop machine}:0.0, where "{your desktop machine} is the host name or IP address of your desktop machine;

2) ensure that the Solaris machine has permission to open windows on your desktop machine's X server (the way that's done is probably dependent on what flavor of X11 you have; if it's on some flavor of UN*X, including OS X, the "xhost" command can be used).