Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Segmentation fault on startup of wireshark

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 4, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:

> Thanks for the debugging help.  Installing the updated libraries  
> required for
> wireshark caused Emacs to stop working, which is a major problem  
> since I have
> been using Emacs for more than 30 years (starting with the original  
> MIT TECO
> implementation) and have no intention of changing now.
>
> I have re-installed Slackware 12.0 from scratch, since ethereal ran  
> just fine
> on it, and will stop trying to keep up with wireshark.  Tools  
> shouldn't be this
> hard to use.

...and they probably won't be if, for example, there are pre-built  
binary packages for the tool.

There don't seem to be any Slackware package of Wireshark at

	http://packages.slackware.it/

(which

	http://www.slackware.com/packages/

says is the official home for Slackware packages), but at

	http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/

they do appear to have a Wireshark package:

	http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/wireshark/

Binary packages are available for some other OSes, including some  
other Linux distributions; links to them are at

	http://www.wireshark.org/download.html#thirdparty