Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] install from source on SuSe 10

From: Jim Ham <jimham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:42:13 -0800

Hi,

I came across this mailto in the User's Guide.

I just got the sources wireshark-0.99.8 and installed it on my machine (SuSe 10,

i586). This is what I did:

(in root directory of distribution)

configure
make
...and as root
make install

Now if I simply invoke wireshark I get this message:

wireshark: error while loading shared libraries: libwiretap.so.0: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

The necessary file is in /usr/local/lib, which is included in /etc/ld.so.conf.

If I do this, it works:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
wireshark

Although (another problem) I have to be root to access eth0.

So two questions:
1) what do I have to do to let wireshark find the library?
2) what do I have to do to make eth0 available to an ordinary user?

Regards,

Jim Ham



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