Re: ethereal and KDE

From: Trog Woolley (trog_at_email.fake)
Date: 05/07/05


Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 10:47:05 +0000 (UTC)

While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway m_d_berger_1900@yahoo.com typed:
> I have RH-E-WS-4 and I have installed ethereal and KDE.
> I did not install ethereal-gnome, since I am using KDE.
> I can't find ethereal, although rpm -q says it is there.
> Must I use gnome; should I install ethereal-gnome and
> use it with KDE; or something else?

I found that under RH9 (and FC3) when you install ethereal,
you get the command line version. If you want the gui, you
need to install the rpms ethereal-gtk+ and ethereal-kde.
If you install these with a --nodeps option, the gui will
run fine. (Well it did for me at work - YMMV).

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