Q re networking, might need guru
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu May 18 18:41:11 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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
>
Thats the one I installed, but didn't seem to want to work. The main
display window was still a blank after 10 minutes worth of browseing and
two email fetch runs by tbird.
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Cheers, Gene
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