Is Wireshark Broke?

[av1611]

My uname and yum info output of wireshark is below. Is Wireshark now broken in the repositories? It seems to install fine but no binary exists in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin...

Anyone?

************UNAME*************

uname -a
Linux osprey.tranquilpenguin.com 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 EST 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

**********PKG INFO*************

[root@osprey ~]# yum info wireshark
<snip>
Installed Packages
Name : wireshark
Arch : i386
Version: 0.99.7
Release: 2.fc8
Size : 38 M
Repo : installed
Summary: Network traffic analyzer
Description:
Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.

This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.

[av1611]

Well, I fixed the issue. I hope someone clears this on up for me, I have seen this type of thing before. When you do
yum install wireshark
on F8 it installs ok, but you don't get any binaries so it don't work. (I run KDE so I think that's important). When you then go back and do
yum install wireshark-gnome
all works...

Can someone explain this to me? Is my KDE missing something? Why did it install without error but not install the binaries?

[rjstaaf]

Look at the paragraph at the bottom of the info for Wireshark in your initial post.


This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering
library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and
documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged
separately to GTK+ package.

Wireshark-gnome is the graphical interface so you must install Wireshark AND Wireshark-gnome.

[av1611]

I supposed that make sense. I saw that but though that it meant that I needed GTK+ installed which I do.

Thanks.

:D