Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 60181
ethereal bin missing
Last modified: 2015-03-04 20:10:14 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205 Description of problem: just ran up2date and got ethereal-0.8.18-10.7.2.1.i3, now can't run ethereal because it isn't there??? # rpm -q ethereal --filesbypkg ethereal /usr/sbin/editcap ethereal /usr/sbin/tethereal that's it. i retro'd to previous version to make sure it wasn't me and sure enough /usr/sbin/ethereal is there. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rev to latest version of ethereal on rhn 2.try to run ethereal 3. Actual Results: nothing. Expected Results: kind obvious... Additional info:
You need the ethereal-gnome package in order to get the graphical UI for ethereal. ethereal itself now only contains the text based tool in order to save separate more cleanly between server based installations and GUI based. Read ya, Phil
forgettting for a sec that the command line version is tethereal (:o), i would like to request that this be reclassifed as a bug for the rpm build itself. ethereal worked, i upgraded the package and it no longer worked. possibly just a dependency issue in the rpm, but i don't think that this is how it should behave. thanks b
Tricky thing. It is something up2date would need to handle as neither ethereal itself nor rpm could do such a thing. An updated via anaconda is no problem as anaconda knows what to do, it's just that you cannot generate a dependancy chain in rpm that would allow such a thing. So the only advice i really have right now is to manually install ethereal-gnome. Read ya, Phil PS: Feel free to reopen and reasign the bug to a different component (up2date e.g.), but it definitely can't be fixed in ethereal itself.