Friday, January 22, 2010

[How to] Build wireshark on Fedora 12

Resources we used included:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChIntroPlatforms.html

Searching for [Wireshark "Binary package" "Red Hat" Fedora download] we found:
http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChBuildInstallUnixInstallBins.html
But we used none of the above.

Instead, we built Wireshark on Fedora using:

yum -y install libpcap-devel
gzip -dc wireshark-1.2.5.tar.gz | tar xv
pkg-config glib-2.0 --modversion
pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --modversion
./configure --without-net-snmp --without-ucd-snmp
make

Wireshark now invoked with:
~/Downloads/wireshark-1.2.5/wireshark &

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