Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal/libpcap missing library function pcap_findalldevs

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

David.Kaatz@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I don't understand why the ethereal install from rpm can depend on 
> libpcap-0.6.2, and then have this error when I install the correct 
> library version.

If an RPM of Ethereal depends on libpcap-0.6.2 but includes a binary 
that uses pcap_findalldevs(), the RPM was built incorrectly.

> Does anyone have a solution to this?

Solution: don't bother with the RPMs on the Ethereal site, search for an 
RPM in rpmfind.net instead.  (That also gets you a newer version than 
0.10.0a.)

(We should really get rid of the RPMs on the Ethereal site, due to this 
problem and due to them including out-of-date versions of Ethereal. 
Gerald?)