[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Warburton Nick wrote:

> I'm installing Ethereal 10.0a on Fedora Core 2 and get the following
> message:
> "libpcap.so.0.6.2 is needed by ethereal-base-0.10.0a-1.RH9"
>
> when I do a "rpm -qa |grep libpcap" on my machine, I get :
> libpcap-0.8.3-6.FC2.1
> Does this mean that I need to install an older version of libpcap?

No, it means you need to install an OS whose dependency system lets you 
specify that package X depends not on a specific version of another 
package, but that it works with a specific version *or any later 
version* of that package.

I don't know what OSes with a package system that supports that type of 
dependency.  Perhaps there's some way of setting up such a dependency in 
RPM; if so, we'd appreciate it if somebody'd tell us what it is, because 
it's really bogus to have an Ethereal package that can only be installed 
with the version of libpcap with which it's built.  (Perhaps a newer 
version of Ethereal - the current version is 0.10.8 - would have 
different dependencies.)

There might be a flag to the rpm program to tell it not to quit just 
because it can't find some particular version of libpcap; if so, you 
might try that flag.