Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 989154
Current wireshark rpm (wireshark-1.10.0-2.fc19.x86_64.rpm) fails to install binary
Last modified: 2016-05-31 21:31:55 EDT
Description of problem: A yum install of wireshark currently installs all support files, but does not install the binary. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): wireshark-1.10.0-2.fc19.x86_64.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "yum install wireshark" on an F19 system without wireshark Actual results: Wireshark support files (in /usr/lib64, /usr/share, /usr/man, /usr/doc) are installed, but the binary in /sbin->/usr/sbin is not installed. Expected results: The binary is installed. Additional info: I have tried this on three different machines, one real and two virtual, one a new install of F19, the other two upgrades from F18, with the same result each time. I'm happy to supply any additional information I can, but I couldn't find anything useful myself (nothing in /var/log/messages or yum.log indicating anything abnormal). I have also tried other installs of new packages, which all worked OK, so it doesn't seem to be a yum configuration problem, but rather specific to wireshark. Puzzlingly, the yum install also passes the verification stage with no errors.
Install wireshark-gnome. There is a binary
Yes, Fedora splits Wireshark project into 2 packages: Info from yum info wireshark* * wireshark -- contains command-line utilities, plugins and documentation for wireshark. * wireshark-gnome -- Gnome desktop integration for wireshark Closing.
You're right, I knew that, that's why it's working on my other machines... Please blame a senior moment (well maybe a senior hour or so 8^). On the other hand, perhaps we have a lot of seniors, newbies etc. using fedora, and maybe even wireshark. So... please may I change this to an RFE (and a very small one). The behaviour of wireshark in this respect is somewhat anomalous. Abstractly, it consists of package xyz not installing the binary xyz, but instead, some other package (xyz-desktop, xyz-gnome or whatever) installing the binary xyz. Most packages don't do this - for most packages, if an xyz binary makes any sense, package xyz installs the binary xyz, and xyz-desktop installs something like xyz-desktop binary. I'm sure I'm not the only one for whom wireshark's unusual packaging has caused confusion. How about having wireshark install a shell script like this, say in /usr/sbin or somewhere likely to be low priority on the user path: #!/bin/sh echo "wireshark binary does not exist" echo "if you want it, you probably need to install a front-end such as wireshark-gnome" and then have wireshark-gnome install over it...