Re: CentOS 6.3 and DUMPCAP -B option

[John Powell <jrp999 () gmail com>]

Hi Jeff,

THANKS so much for your guidance- I have never done something like this
before and it is pretty cool that is worked.

I was looking in the Source directory for 1.8.1 and did not see a SPEC file.

For future reference, I would like to know how to determine the
requirements as the Config.Log file seemed too cryptic for me but I have
had experience with SPEC files.  Could you enlighten me?

Thanks again for your help!

-John

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>wrote:

> John Powell wrote:
>
> > *Jeff,* I tried to install a later version of wireshark 1.4 on my 6.3 box
> > but ran into issues with GTK+ and others
> >
> >
> > checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... no
> > *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
> > *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log
> > for the
> > *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly
> > installed.
> > configure: error: GTK+ 2.4 or later isn't available, so Wireshark can't
> > be compiled
> >
> >     * I am new at the whole linux game, would it be possible for you to
> >
> >       send me details on how the later version of Wireshark got
> >       installed on your 6.1 CentOS machine?
> >     * I am assuming it was installed from source and not from a
> >
> >       repository, but if it was from a repository could you let me know
> >       which one?
>
> You'd have to check the config.log to find out the exact reason, but
> CentOS 6 comes with GTK 2.18.9 so it should be fine.  Chances are you're
> missing the -devel package: "yum install gtk2-devel" to fix that.
>
> (In fact I've also built 1.8.1 on CentOS 6; you might want to consider
> using this latest/great version too.)
>
> There may be other -devel packages you need too.  The Fedora Core 17
> Wireshark spec file (which builds 1.6.6) requires all of these packages to
> build; you don't need all of them (depending on what options you want), but
> it's a starting point (I added some comments):
>
> BuildRequires:  libpcap-devel >= 0.9
> BuildRequires:  libsmi-devel # only needed for SNMP
> BuildRequires:  zlib-devel, bzip2-devel
> BuildRequires:  openssl-devel # Not used by Wireshark any more
> BuildRequires:  glib2-devel, gtk2-devel
> BuildRequires:  elfutils-devel, krb5-devel # latter is optional
> BuildRequires:  python, pcre-devel, libselinux # pcre-devel is optional,
> don't think you really need libselinux
> BuildRequires:  gnutls-devel # only needed if you want to decrypt things
> BuildRequires:  flex, bison, python, python-devel # python-devel only
> needed if you want Python scripting support (which doesn't work very well)
> BuildRequires:  GeoIP-devel # only if you want GeoIP
> BuildRequires:  libcap-devel # only if you want to use Linux Capabilities
> BuildRequires:  adns-devel # optional
> BuildRequires:  c-ares-devel # optional
> BuildRequires:  portaudio-devel # optional
> BuildRequires:  lua-devel #optional
>
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