alas, I finally figured it out and should have just sent a reply to my original note. as you said, the distruibution was split into base, etc and out of frustration, I just installed everything and it started
working just fine.
the manual I had read was the one in the sidebar of the ethereal main web page and so I took that to be the latest. as a suggestion, perhaps the installation section for the binaries could state that the example
for RedHat was for the older distribution kits and state which of the other are required - as I said I just installed them all and don't know if they're all required or not.
-mark
"Visser, Martin (Sydney)" wrote:
> I tend to download the source and build it, so I don't download the binaries. However, from looking at the "old-versions" directory it seems that the distribution has been split up from version 0.8.18-1 and on.
>
> I'll take a punt and say that you need base, gtk+, usermode (maybe), and probably the latest libpcap to be safe.
>
> BTW Mark, welcome to the HP Ethereal users Group :-)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seger, Mark
> Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2002 1:00 AM
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] stumped...
>
> I'm sure the answer is a simple one, but I can't figure out how to
> install this on RedHat. According to the installation manual, the
> command for the binary is of the form:
>
> rpm -ivh ethereal-0.8.10-1.i386.rpm
>
> however, when I go to the download location for the binaries at:
> ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/rpms/
>
> there are no packages with a name of this form. There is a SRC, but no
> i386. There ARE a number of i386 packages such as base, gnome, etc but
> no mention of them in the installation manual. I did install the 'base'
> which is clearly is not runnable, but don't know if I should/must
> install any of the others and if so in what order.
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated...
>
> -mark
>
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