Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] trouble getting packaged installs to work on OSX

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:00:44 -0700
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:05:33PM -0400, Chris Cocuzzo wrote:

> I've encountered this problem using both Fink and DarwinPorts. While 
> the error messages might have been slightly different, they both 
> amounted to something like this in the OSX command line: "GTK unable 
> to open"

Is this the error: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: ?  If so, make 
sure you have Apple's X11 insalled and either start wireshark from an 
X11 xterm screen or set the display variable manually.  For the 
sh/bash/ksh shells do "export DISPLAY=:0.0" or for the tcsh shell do 
"setenv DISPLAY :0.0"

> Also, I have ethereal running correctly in Parallels on OSX; however, 
> it seems like I can't see any other network interface aside from 
> Parallels itself. Any ideas why it doesn't find the other interfaces 
> out there?

Sorry, never used parallels myself.


Steve