Maynard, Chris wrote:
Oh, one last thing - I read an article, linked from the
www.portableapps.com website that indicated that you could run a
PortableApps application on Linux if you have wine installed. I did not
try that ... yet. Unfortunately, I probably won't be able to try it
until next week at the earliest. Unless someone can tell me a reason why
they know it wouldn't work and that I need not bother trying it out?
I don't know for certain that it won't work.
However, Wireshark (and TShark, and tcpdump/Windump, and so on) use
libpcap/WinPcap to capture traffic - and libpcap/WinPcap provide a
(mostly) platform-independent interface to a very platform-dependent
packet capture mechanism. WinPcap is the version that runs on Windows,
and it assumes the OS's packet capture mechanism is the WinPcap
mechanism, not the Linux mechanism (i.e., PF_PACKET sockets) - unless
Wine exports a *native* implementation of libpcap/WinPcap with a
WinPcap-compatible binary interface, Wireshark might work, but it almost
certainly won't be able to capture packets.