Ethereal is also part of the RedHat distribution these days.
Version 0.9.3 was included in the original RH7.3 release,
and version 0.9.4 has made it into the updates so far.
//Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Seger [mailto:seger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 02:44
> To: Visser, Martin (Sydney)
> Cc: Seger, Mark; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] stumped...
>
> 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 :-)
> >
> > Martin Visser
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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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