Jeremey Stephens wrote:
That being said I am getting an error when installing
ethereal-base-1.10.0a-1.RH9.i386.rpm that says it can
not find libpcap.so.0.6.2
I have installed libpcap-0.7.2 according to the
instructions and it is my understanding that
libpcap.so.0.6.2 is supposed to be a part of this
package.
If by "the package" you mean the libpcap-0.7.2 package, then I wouldn't
expect libpcap.so.0.6.2 to be part of that package - I'd expect
libpcap.so.0.7.2 to be part of that package.
libpcap wouldn't be part of the Ethereal package.
Is there something I am missing?
You're probably missing an Ethereal package built by somebody who
understands RPM dependencies. It sounds as if they might have built the
RPM to require libpcap 0.6.2, rather than to require libpcap 0.6.2 *or
later* (or not to *care* what version of libpcap is present, although
the package might have been built on an OS with libpcap 0.6.2 and might
require libpcap routines present only in 0.6.2 or later, in which case
it might have to require 0.6.2 or later).
Unfortunately, I don't know where correctly-built RPMs can be found. I
don't know who built the ones on the Ethereal site, but one problem with
them is that they're RPMs for an old version of Ethereal - they're for
0.10.0a, but the current version is 0.10.9. You might try looking for
newer RPMs on http://www.rpmfind.net - they appear to have 0.10.9 RPMs
for various flavors of Red Hat/Fedora Core, and even if those RPMs might
require specific versions of libpcap (if so, I'd like to hear the
rationale for that), they might require the version you already have.
Perhaps we should just link to rpmfind.net rather than storing RPMs for
old versions of Ethereal on the Ethereal Web site.