Kevin D. McAllister on Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:01:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] sniffers/installation/Linux/obvious


* Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:15:09PM -0500, Bill Patterson wrote:
> I know I am missing something obvious.  I have successfully installed
> Ethereal on my Windows box, but installation on Linux (RH8) remains
> elusive.  I have tried getting the source and then going the
> "./configure" "make" "make install" route which ends in errors.  I have
> also tried rpm --install <name of rpm> and that has been with less
> success.  Can anyone tell me you have installed Ethereal successfully on
> Linux, and if there are good directions somewhere?  Thanks.
> 

If you have configured up2date (The RedHat Network) on RH8 you can
simply as root run: (assuming the box is connected to the Internet)

[root@prometheus root]# up2date ethereal

Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-8.0...
########################################

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-8.0...
########################################

Fetching rpm headers...

Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
ethereal-0.9.8-0.80.0.i386. ########################## Done.
Preparing              ###########################################
[100%]

Installing...
   1:ethereal
   ########################################### [100%]


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