[lug] Ethereal - installing problems

[Trent Turner]

The "rpm -qli ethereal" is good stuff!  Thanks, although I don't think I
would have picked up on the tethereal thing.

I have started to figure out that stuff gets stuck in /usr/sbin, so I'm
not as dumb as I think sometimes!

Once you mentioned there was no gui, that prompted me to hit the website
for further info.  (The reason I didn't pursue that further is the
windoze install included the gui, no reason to think the FC install
wouldn't, eh?)

So now I see two choices for the gui: gnome & gtk+

I'll try & figure out if there's a benefit or difference, especially
since I'm running kde desktop.

Thanks so much for your assistance! 

Stay tuned for stupid user tricks on Samba!

Thanks again!

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 17:31, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
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> >>>>> "Trent" == Trent Turner <trentturner at comcast.net> writes:
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> 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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