Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Need help on installing WS on Centos 5

From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:47:23 -0400
Rajesh Mahadevan wrote:
Hi,

I have been trying to install wireshark and wireshark-gnome rpm on a server running CentOS 5. This is an i386 (32-bit) server.

I did multiple searches on the internet and found that my server requires "wireshark-<version>.i386.rpm" and "wireshark-gnome-<version>.i386.rpm" packages. The difficulty I am having is to find the right rpm version of wireshark and where to find them. My server has "libpcap-0.9.4-11.el5.rpm" package installed and "openssl-devel-0.9.8b-8.3.e15_0.2" & "openssl-0.9.8b-8.3.e15_0.2" packages installed.

Someone provided me two wireshark RPMs : "wireshark-0.99.4-EL3.1.i386.rpm" and "wireshark-gnome-0.99.4.EL3.1i386.rpm".

I tried to install but it failed complaining "Failed Dependencies". Any help is highly appreciated.

Those are RH EL3 RPMs--I would expect some dependencies trouble trying to install them on the equivalent of RH EL5.

Why not just do a "yum install wireshark-gnome" and pull the Wireshark RPMs directly from CentOS? (Or "up2date wireshark-gnome" if you have up2date installed and it works.)