Re: [Ethereal-users] Unable to launch ethereal

[Eduard <ed_po@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Banibrata Dutta wrote:

> Eduard,
>
> assuming that you are a unix newbie, i think you need to make sure
> that the ethereal binary/executable is in your $PATH (i gues it is,
> because tethereal also gets installed in the same dir, and u said u
> are able to use it), still just check. secondly check that ethereal
> has execute permissions.
>
> if your installation via rpm went without any error being reported
> (assuming you did:  rpm -ivh ethereal....rpm), then it's really very
> surprising that in this case you can run tethereal but not ethereal.
>
> regards,
> bd
>
> On 9/3/05, Eduard <ed_po@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello everyone!
> > I am a newbie. I'm trying to install ethereal* *via rpm.
> > While trying to run ethereal got the following error:
> > [root@localhost /]# ethereal -i wlan0
> > bash: ethereal: command not found
> >
> > Here is my configuration:
> > FC4, KDE, I have the following packages installed:
> > libcap-1.10-22
> > gtk+1.2.10-39.i386
> > gtk+-devel-1.2.10-39.i386
> > glib-1.2.10-16.i386
> > glib-devel-1.2.10-16.i386
> > gtk2-devel-2.6.7-4.i386
> > elfutils-devel-0.108-1.i386
> > net-snmp-5.2.1-12.i386.rpm
> > net-snmp-utils-5.2.1-12.i386
> > net-snmp-devel-5.2.1-12.i386
> > Installing ethereal-0.10.11-2.i386 from RPM repository goes without any
> > error and rpm query command also gives correct output. I tried also to
> > install source rpm without success as well- the same error!
> >
> > After all i decided to install from source, here is the error i got,
> > although i thing it has nothing in common with previous one:
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/ethereal-0.10.12'
> > if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I. -I./wiretap -I/usr/local/include
> > -DINET6 -D_U_="__attribute__((unused))" -Wall -W -g -O2
> > -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2
> > -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -MT version_info.o -MD -MP
> > -MF ".deps/version_info.Tpo" -c -o version_info.o version_info.c; \
> > then mv -f ".deps/version_info.Tpo" ".deps/version_info.Po"; else rm -f
> > ".deps/version_info.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
> > In file included from version_info.c:64:
> > /usr/include/ucd-snmp/version.h:9:2: error: #error "Please update your
> > headers or configure using --enable-ucd-snmp-compatibility"
> > version_info.c: In function 'get_compiled_version_info':
> > version_info.c:163: error: 'VersionInfo' undeclared (first use in this
> > function)
> > version_info.c:163: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > version_info.c:163: error: for each function it appears in.)
> > make[2]: *** [version_info.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/ethereal-0.10.12'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/ethereal-0.10.12'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
> > Here is my ./configure output:
> >
> > The Ethereal package has been configured with the following options.
> > Build ethereal : yes
> > Build tethereal : yes
> > Build capinfos : yes
> > Build editcap : yes
> > Build mergecap : yes
> > Build text2pcap : yes
> > Build idl2eth : yes
> > Build randpkt : yes
> > Build dftest : yes
> >
> > Install setuid : no
> > Use plugins : yes
> > Use GTK+ v2 library : no
> > Use pcap library : yes
> > Use zlib library : yes
> > Use pcre library : yes
> > Use kerberos library : yes (MIT)
> > Use GNU ADNS library : no
> > Use SSL crypto library : no
> > Use IPv6 name resolution : yes
> > Use UCD SNMP/Net-SNMP library : no
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I can run tethereal but not ethereal!
> > What am i doing wrong??
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >    
Thank you  for response!
I agree with you, probably it's a common mistake for newbie ,but  I was 
thinking that if it was a permission i would get permission denied error 
or something, or am i wrong?  Another thing that i can't locate 
executable file itself, in wich location I'm supposed to look for it by 
default?
Thanks.