https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5756
Summary: Wireshark probably should have an Installer package
rather than be drag-install
Product: Wireshark
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.6
Status: NEW
Severity: Major
Priority: Low
Component: Wireshark
AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
ReportedBy: guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Build Information:
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A lot of people try installing Wireshark on OS X and then find that they can't
capture; that's because they either didn't realize that they need to install
ChmodBPF and run it to get the BPF devices accessible by them, or tried doing
so and didn't correctly do it, or didn't know that just drag-installing
ChmodBPF causes it to be owned by them (because the dmg is either mounted with
the MNT_IGNORE_OWNERSHIP "everything is owned by mounter" option or has 99 as
the owner (which turns into the mounter) and thus that they need to do a "chown
-R root:wheel" on it, or didn't run "sudo SystemStarter start ChmodBPF" or
reboot.
If we use an Installer package rather than having it be a drag-install app, we
could have it install the startup item - or switch to a launchd LaunchDaemon,
to join the modern world - and possibly also install the command-line tools
(either always or optionally).
Yes, the standard ideology for installation of apps on OS X is "drag-install
good", but some apps are special and don't work well with drag-install; VMware
Fusion is a special app, because it has to install kernel modules, and thus
isn't drag-install, and Wireshark is arguably special as well, as it would
either need to install dumpcap as set-UID or install a startup item or launchd
LaunchDaemon to make it possible for the user to do captures.
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