Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Trouble installing on RH9, ver 10a

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:13:45 -0800

On Dec 15, 2003, at 2:01 PM, Gary Birnhak wrote:


I am trying to install 10a on Red Hat 9.  Went to:

ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/rpms/

and saw a bunch of packages.  Tried "ethereal-base",
but rpm said that I need ucd-smnp.  ???  I won't be dissecting
any snmp so I then tried "ethereal-base-no-snmp", which
seemed to install, except can't find the ethereal program
file.
You probably want ethereal-gtk+ - ethereal-base includes the stuff that doesn't require GTK+, but the Ethereal executable does require it.
Perhaps "ethereal-base" should be renamed "tethereal-base", but I'd expect people to still be confused as they might not realize that you first need to install something whose name doesn't begin with "ethereal". 


Is there a FAQ on this list of packages?
No, but there should probably be something - I'd vote for exporting the RPMs via HTTP as well as FTP, and providing an index page, just as 

	http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/
has an index page, with the RPM index page explaining what the various RPMs are.