On Aug 4, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
Thanks for the debugging help. Installing the updated libraries
required for
wireshark caused Emacs to stop working, which is a major problem
since I have
been using Emacs for more than 30 years (starting with the original
MIT TECO
implementation) and have no intention of changing now.
I have re-installed Slackware 12.0 from scratch, since ethereal ran
just fine
on it, and will stop trying to keep up with wireshark. Tools
shouldn't be this
hard to use.
...and they probably won't be if, for example, there are pre-built
binary packages for the tool.
There don't seem to be any Slackware package of Wireshark at
http://packages.slackware.it/
(which
http://www.slackware.com/packages/
says is the official home for Slackware packages), but at
http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/
they do appear to have a Wireshark package:
http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/wireshark/
Binary packages are available for some other OSes, including some
other Linux distributions; links to them are at
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty
