Les Mikesell wrote:
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
kde that breaks gtk/gnome apps.
I did not see befor or after installing etherape, and etherape was the
first tarball I'd built. Everything else except skype is an rpm. And I
built it to get a network monitor of SOME kind. There is not, and never
has been, an ethereal available in any kde menu. What tree did yours
show up in? I'm looking in the yumex info for the installed ethereal,
and the info there does not show an executable binary as being part of
that package:
/etc/pam.d/ethereal
/etc/security/console.apps/ethereal
/usr/lib/ethereal
/usr/lib/ethereal/plugins
/usr/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.99.0
/usr/lib/ethereal/plugins/0.99.0/acn.so
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/agentx.so
/usr/sbin/artnet.so
/usr/share/doc/asn1.so
/usr/share/doc/ethereal-0.99.0/ciscosm.so
/usr/share/doc/ethereal-0.99.0/doc/coseventcomm.so
/usr/share/cosnaming.so
/usr/share/ethereal/docsis.so
/usr/share/ethereal/diameter/enttec.so
/usr/share/ethereal/dtds/gryphon.so
/usr/share/ethereal/help/h223.so
/usr/share/ethereal/radius/irda.so
/usr/share/man/man1/lwres.so
/usr/share/man/man4/mate.so
I do not see an excutable binary in that list, hence my comment about
the packaging of it. Does yours show one?
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.
Only skype has ever been installed from the tarball, and thats prebuilt
so its apparently identical to the rpms also available, I've tried both.
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Cheers, Gene
