Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Using wireshark with centOS 5 need to run lua scripts for dissector

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Carson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to write a dissector in Wireshark under CentOS using Lua, what 
> are the steps to get this to work? Installed Wireshark via yum cannot 
> run configure to enable lua pugin. Please provide detailed steps.

When you run "wireshark -v" does it say "without Lua" or "with Lua"?

If it says "without Lua" then the version provided by CentOS does not 
come with LUA built in so you'll need to build your own Wireshark (there 
are instructions on the web site and/or Wiki).