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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] FW: [Wireshark-users] wireshark (with SMI) install on ubuntu

From: Balint Reczey <balint.reczey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:59:33 +0100
Hi,

On 01/10/2011 04:27 PM, Sandor, Todd (Todd) wrote:
To reach a wider audience, sending this to the dev email as well …

*From:* wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Sandor,
Todd (Todd)
*Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 10:14 AM
*To:* wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [Wireshark-users] wireshark (with SMI) install on ubuntu
issues ...(sending again ..)..

(had errors in previous email, sending again) …

Hi - need some help getting wireshark with SMI (for decoding snmp via
MIBs) working on ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Wireshark shipped is compiled with SMI support:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/amd64/wireshark-common/1.2.7-1


I can not find a package that includes wireshark with SMI ready for
install, so I googled and found:
"apt-get install wireshark snmp-mibs-downloader" should make the trick.
...

::/usr/local/wireshark(504)$ sudo apt-get install libsmi2-common
libsmi2-dev libsmi2ldbl

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done
....



adduser: No UID is available in the range 100-999 (FIRST_SYS_UID -
LAST_SYS_UID).

adduser: The user `postfix' was not created.

dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx:

bsd-mailx depends on default-mta | mail-transport-agent; however:

Package default-mta is not installed.

Package postfix which provides default-mta is not configured yet.

Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.

Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure):

dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Setting up libsmi2-common (0.4.8+dfsg2-2) ...

No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
followup error from a previous failure.

Setting up libsmi2ldbl (0.4.8+dfsg2-2) ...

Setting up libsmi2-dev (0.4.8+dfsg2-2) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libMrm.so.3 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libXm.so.3 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libUil.so.3 is not a symbolic link

Errors were encountered while processing:

postfix

bsd-mailx

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Your system is broken, you should fix it first. Please ask for help on ubuntu users list.

I assume if I can get this SMI stuff installed, that if I follow the
rest of the compile/install that wireshark (below) with SMI will work…?

After installing "devscripts" via Synaptic Package Manager (so could use
the "dpkg-buildpackage" command) I was able to get verion 1.2.7 of
wireshark installed/working using the command below, but when I go into
Preferences Name Resolution, the options to configure the MIB
paths/modules are not available.

sudo apt-get build-dep wireshark

cd wireshark-1.2.7/

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc

cd ..

sudo dpkg -i tshark_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb wireshark-common_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb
wireshark_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb

You don't need to do this. The official packages should work.

But, I can’t decode smmp mibs when I run this wireshark:
You need to install snmp-mibs-downloader as descibed in
/usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian .

Cheers,
Balint