In Fedora 11 gnome it was very easy to install new programs - but I sincerely feel that while it may be slightly different in KDE . . . it will be well worth the try.

I have downloaded the wireshark-1.3.2.tar.gz while in a Fedora 11 Live and then copied it to USB and over to the Fedora 12 KDE Live filesystem that I run my dhcpd and tftp-server on.

I have extracted the wireshark download now in the F12 KDE OS - which is a local home LAN no longer configured or connected to the internet.
I do have snort and tcpdump that run in the F12 KDE OS on this LAN, but also want to experiment with doing some troubleshooting by also trying wireshark.

Any experience of how wireshark is installed/configured and started from a command line, once files are extracted ?

Thank you very much.

Definitely next to impossible for me from the command line . . .

I re-did all my network config files to get back on internet and then used yum extender . . .

Code: Select all

# yum -y install yumex

It took 20 minutes for yum extender to install wireshark -
at least with the yum extender I had a better gui that showed it was still working at installation and cleanup of files -
whereas in terminal I would have thought the plain yum install wireshark was froze.

This is a distribution utility related issue, and does not involve KDE.

jenaniston wrote:In Fedora 11 gnome it was very easy to install new programs - but I sincerely feel that while it may be slightly different in KDE . . . it will be well worth the try.

I have downloaded the wireshark-1.3.2.tar.gz while in a Fedora 11 Live and then copied it to USB and over to the Fedora 12 KDE Live filesystem that I run my dhcpd and tftp-server on.

I have extracted the wireshark download now in the F12 KDE OS - which is a local home LAN no longer configured or connected to the internet.
I do have snort and tcpdump that run in the F12 KDE OS on this LAN, but also want to experiment with doing some troubleshooting by also trying wireshark.

Any experience of how wireshark is installed/configured and started from a command line, once files are extracted ?

Thank you very much.

The following guide worked like a charm for me:

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html ... stall.html

However, I followed its instructions to use Gentoo's portage build system to install wireshark. It did all of the dependency resolution and other hard stuff for me.

bcooksley wrote: . . . and does not involve KDE.

Yeah, this old post wasn't specific about KDE as I was interested in command line interface.

But now currently, I do have a more wireshark in KDE related GUI question . . .
and will post in appearance customization.