Hi Experts, The download page on Wireshark page says that Wireshark is available as a standard package for RedHat Enterprise Linux. Does that mean it is pre installed ? Could you please tell me what to do if it is not installed there. I am not a Linux expert, I just have to guide my unix support team on the same. Is it not possible to get a direct installable for RedHat ? Kindly Relpy Thanks, Manish asked 19 Jul '13, 01:04  Manish Ubana |
3 Answers:
Please run these commands as root.
From that list pick the packages you want/need and run
Regards answered 19 Jul '13, 01:49  Kurt Knochner ♦ edited 19 Jul '13, 01:51 showing 5 of 7 show 2 more comments |
I think the version on RHN is quite old. Its better if you download the latest version and have it installed. answered 19 Jul '13, 12:12  Jay Tang yes, pretty old: 1.2.14 and just 'downlaod' isn't that easy. I haven't found a installable package for RHEL ... :-( (22 Jul '13, 09:44) mrEEde2 |
If you're going the manual root as discussed in the other answers, I suggest compiling it from source (you can compile a newer version than the old default off a yum install from the stock repo's anyway). What version of Redhat are you using? I seem to remember the GTK2 dependencies being a major pain for Wireshark 1.8 or greater on RHEL 5 or CentOS 5, but would support WS 1.6 no problem. If you're RHEL 6 then I recommend compiling Wireshark 1.10 (download the source from wireshark.org). As for dependencies, I compiled it from a stock CentOS6/RHEL6 install with the following yum-able packages (I believe this is all): gtk2 gtk2-devel bison flex gcc libpcap libpcap-devel make (just in case make isn't installed :) ) From there, just do the normal: ./configure make make install A word of warning if you do this - there will be a great number of "warning" pop-ups when you do the 'make' command in particular. This also takes a long time. answered 22 Jul '13, 19:24  Quadratic |
Thank you very much Kurt
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I checked with the linux team , they say that the wireshark package is not there. Anyway by which we can install it manually. Can you please tell me if I can find the wireshark installables for RedHat Enterprise Edition somewhere?
Thanks
And which version of Redhat Enterprise Edition would that be and what were the results of
yum list wireshark*as above?What is the 'error' message?
Of course you can install it manually, however you would need the RPM packages from Red Hat and quite some other packages to resolve dependencies. This is all possible but way to much work to be worth it. Please go back to your linux team and ask them for the error message and if they have changed the repository servers in their installation (/etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d/)
Thank you all for you replies
did you read the error message of yum??
I guess that's the reason why you don't get any updates/packages ;-)) Please go back to your linux admins and ask them if they also see this as a potential problem.
BTW: The yum command should have been
asterisk at the end.