From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: In the pacakage description of ethereal-0.9.3-3 RPM for i386 the GUI called ethereal is described as "provided" which means, if you install the package you can use the programm ethereal. But the program ethereal IS NOT provided by this package. The only content of this pacakage are the basics for ethereal and the TEXT BASED tethereal. The GUI called ethereal is not contained, but it is separately packaged called ethereal- gnome-0.9.3-3. Unfortunately KDE 3.0 useres like me cannot take advantage of this package because it needs an installed g-nome windowmanager. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -i ethereal-0.9.3-3 2. try to start ethereal by the command "ethereal" Actual Results: Redhat says: bash: ethereal: command not found Expected Results: If an X-server - especially KDE - is running the ethereal GUI should pop up Additional info: I compiled the 9.3.3 sources on my machine and it is running, but you really should change the package so that KDE users can also take advantage of this useful network sniffer AND IT'S GUI. I've already discussed this issue on the ethereal-board: http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200205/msg00135.html http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200205/msg00138.html http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200205/msg00140.html
The name of the GUI package will change, but the separation will still persits for the simple reason as many server setups will not want any GUI components installed and therefore only want the tethereal app. But renaming the GUI component has been discussed here on bugzilla as well and will be done for the next version. Read ya, Phil