Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] lua starter (tshark -X is not working)

[sothy shan <sothy.e98@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello!
I am planning to install recent version of wireshark on RHEL.
Do you have any pointer for RPM?
I tried with source code. It goes dependy loop over and over .I
dropped the plan?

Best regards
Sothy

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Feb 11, 2015, at 12:18 AM, sothy shan <sothy.e98@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> when I do
>>
>> $tshark -v
>> TShark 1.8.10 (SVN Rev Unknown from unknown)
>> Copyright 1998-2013 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and contributors.
>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
>> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>> Compiled (64-bit) with GLib 2.28.8, with libpcap, ... without Lua, ...
>>
>> I got the above.
>
> Well, there's your answer.
>
> Your version of Wireshark, including TShark, was not built with support for Lua, so it cannot and will not run *any* Lua scripts.
>
> If you want to run a Lua script, you will need to get a version of Wireshark that *is* built with Lua.
>
>> Built using gcc 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-9).
>
> So are you running some flavor of Red Hat Linux or Fedora?
>
> And are you using the version of Wireshark that was packaged with the system?  If so, you might have to build Wireshark from source to get a version that includes Lua.
>
>> In my machine, I dont have wireshark GUI, have
>> tshark. Therefore, there is no init.lua file in my machine.
>
> Unless whoever packaged Wireshark did a bad job, it's irrelevant whether you have the Wireshark GUI or not - init.lua should, at least if Wireshark was built with Lua support, include init.lua.
>
> But even if you *did* have init.lua, it would make no difference - the problem is that there's no Lua interpreter in your version of TShark, so it couldn't do anything with init.lua if it were there.
>
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