Q re networking, might need guru

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu May 18 15:52:18 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:33, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > 
> > 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? 

It's under 'Internet'.

>  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?

The piece you want is in ethereal-gnome:

# rpm -q --list ethereal-gnome
/usr/bin/ethereal
/usr/sbin/ethereal
/usr/share/applications/net-ethereal.desktop
/usr/share/man/man1/ethereal.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/ethereal.png

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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