[lug] Ethereal - installing problems

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "Trent" == Trent Turner <trentturner at comcast.net> writes:

Trent> One of my biggest frustrations as a Linux newbie, is installing
Trent> software.

Trent> For example, being caught in a sequential vortex, e.g. I want
Trent> to print & access my home pc from wy work (windows) laptop.  I
Trent> got all the pieces of Samba installed, can't login, so started
Trent> looking at documentation, found the pdf doc in
Trent> /usr/share/doc/samba folder which immediately wanted to take me
Trent> through network essentials using ethereal.  Cool, I've played
Trent> with it on Windows just a tad, so I'll install ethereal on my
Trent> FC1 system.

Trent> Installed it with 'yum install ethereal' everything was groovy.
Trent> No install problems, dependencies, etc.

Trent> Now where is the GDE?  (executable)

Trent> a "find / -name 'ethereal' -print" command reveals the
Trent> following: find / -name 'ethereal' -print /etc/pam.d/ethereal
Trent> /etc/security/console.apps/ethereal /usr/lib/ethereal
Trent> /usr/share/ethereal

Trent> Cool!  Except /usr/lib/ethereal only has a plugin dir under it
Trent> & there's no GDE in the directory, apparently not anywhere!

Trent> OK, let's look in /etc/pam.d/ethereal (what the heck is pam.d?)
Trent> Nope, nothing that looks executable in there!

Trent> OK, last shot /etc/security/console.apps/ethereal BINGO! a 64
Trent> byte text file, open it up & what do we get?  Let's see: tail
Trent> /etc/security/console.apps/ethereal USER=root
Trent> PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/ethereal SESSION=true FALLBACK=true

Trent> Hot Dog!  I'm not as ignorant or stupid as experience with
Trent> Linux has led me to believe.  Let's try this thing: bash:
Trent> ethereal: command not found Damn!  look in /usr/sbin sure
Trent> enough, no ethereal

Trent> So where did the GDE go?  Why does this happen so frequently
Trent> when I try to install packages?  What else could I have done?
Trent> What else should I have done?

The problem here is that the 'ethereal' package is just the base
ethereal files, you probibly want to also install one of the graphical
frontends. 

yum install ethereal-gnome

There is a executable in the base ethereal package, but it's called
'tethereal' (text I guess). 

You can find out the files that are owned by a particular package
with: 

rpm -qli ethereal

and you will see in sbin, there is: 

/usr/sbin/capinfo
/usr/sbin/dftest
/usr/sbin/editcap
/usr/sbin/idl2eth
/usr/sbin/mergecap
/usr/sbin/tethereal
/usr/sbin/text2pcap

So, your find would have seen tethereal if you had not restricted it
to just exactly ethereal. 

Trent> btw, once I get ethereal going? then I'll write back with my
Trent> Samba problems!

:)

Trent> Thanks in Advance!  your in Linux Ignorance, Trent

kevin
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