[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Arvind L wrote:

>    I upgraded from the older version of ethereal found on Fedora Core 2 
> to the one found on Fedora Core 3.
>    The previous version worked correctly with FC2 but on FC3 the new 
> update gives the error message:
>    
>                                     ethereal: symbol lookup error: 
> ethereal: undefined symbol: pcap_lib_version

Upgrade your operating system to a version that has libpcap 0.9.1 or 
later.  I guess FC3 has 0.9.1 or later, so, when they build Ethereal for 
FC3, that's presumably done *on* FC3, so the version of Ethereal they 
built assumes that it can call pcap_lib_version() to get a string giving 
the version number of libpcap.

(I.e., if you're running FC2, there's no guarantee that a package for 
FC3 will run; if you want to run a package for FC3, you might have to 
upgrade to FC3.)