On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:23:43AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Mike Frisch wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:46:09AM +0100, Peter Cannon wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 04:15, THE ANALYZERS wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, I have ethereal 0.10.3-2.1 installed. I know it because I typed "rpm
> > > > -q ethereal". But whenever I type ethereal as root or otherwise,
> > > > I get "ethereal: Command not found." Does someone know how to
> > > > start it?
> > >
> > > I'm no expert but I suppose you tried ' ethereal & '
> >
> > What is the significance of backgrounding the task? The binary is
> > not installed, so it won't run in the foreground or the background.
>
> if you can't seem to locate the executable, my favorite trivial
> trick is to:
>
> $ rpm -ql ethereal ("ell", not "1", after the "q")
>
> and see, in the list of files in the package, where the executable
> seems to live. ethereal *should* be in /usr/sbin.
Except that the ethereal rpm doesn't contain the actual ethereal program.
It contains tethereal (which is in /usr/sbin) but ethereal itself is in
ethereal-gnome.
Dave...
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