Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] problems installing ethereal

[Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, priya Srinivasan wrote:

Firstly, could you get rid of the HTML when posting to this list please?

> I have installed ethereal using rpms.
>  
> before installing ethereal i have installed the following rpms
>  
> glib-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
> glib-devel-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
> gtk+-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
> gtk+-devel-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
> glib-1.2.8-1.src.rpm
> gtk+-1.2.8-1.src.rpm
> libpcap-0.6.2-16.i386.rpm
>  
> after installing these i installed the following
>  
> ethereal-0.9.6-1.src.rpm
> ethereal-0.9.6-1.i386.rpm
>  
> there were no errors while installing any of these.
>  
> the problem is ethereal executable is not being created and hence i am 
> not able to run ethereal.

This has already been replied to, but I thought I would point out that 
this version is quite old and subject to buffer overflow attacks.

Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com

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