On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 09:58, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> > >>>> And I did have yumex search for etherape, but it came up empty. I > >>>> needed a network analyzer that worked, and now I have nothing but > >>>> tcpdump and tethereal, neither of which shows me what I need to know. > >>> tethereal? If you 'yum install ethereal-gnome' you should get > >>> the GUI ethereal which is pretty nice to use. Give it an > >>> expression like you would with tcpdump to limit the capture > >>> to what you want to see. Or you can use tcpdump -w and > >>> an appropriate -s snaplength to capture to a file, then > >>> analyze it with ethereal, even on a different machine. > >> Tell that to the packagers. I'd first had 'yum install ethereal', but > >> that didn't get me ethereal,it got me tethereal for some unknown > >> reason. tethereal looks like tcpdump as near as I can tell. AFAIKS this > >> whole networking thing is pretty badly fubar, it took me about 10 days > >> just to make my broadcom radio work. > >> > >> So where can I find an rpm of etherape that will run on FC5? > > > > Did you try 'yum install ethereal-gnome'? After that, it should > > show up in the applications/internet menu or you can start it > > with the 'ethereal' command. > > > Yes I did that, but I'm running kde Les, and have to start it from the > cli. It didn't work, I presume its too gnome-centric so I removed it, > and now etherape, another GTK+ app, cannot be made to work. You have something even worse wrong. I see ethereal in the internet menu in a KDE session and it also works fine started from the command line in a Konsole window. There is nothing about running kde that breaks gtk/gnome apps. > If this > yumex update ever gets done, its been working on it for 4 hours now, > I'll reboot to 2118_FC5 and see if that does any good. That will bring > in a new compiler version & maybe a 3rd rebuild will restore etherape. > We'll bow to the east & all that if it does. It's always a good idea to do frequent 'yum update's, but I'm guessing you clobbered a system library yourself. I'd fix that before going much farther with trying to debug an application. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
