ethereal

[Dave Cross]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:23:43AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Mike Frisch wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:46:09AM +0100, Peter Cannon wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 15 Jun 2004 04:15, THE ANALYZERS wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi, I have ethereal  0.10.3-2.1 installed. I know it because I typed "rpm
> > > > -q ethereal". But whenever I type ethereal as root or otherwise,
> > > > I get "ethereal: Command not found." Does someone know how to
> > > > start it?
> > > 
> > > I'm no expert but I suppose you tried ' ethereal & '
> > 
> > What is the significance of backgrounding the task? The binary is
> > not installed, so it won't run in the foreground or the background.
> 
> if you can't seem to locate the executable, my favorite trivial
> trick is to:
> 
> $ rpm -ql ethereal         ("ell", not "1", after the "q")
> 
> and see, in the list of files in the package, where the executable
> seems to live. ethereal *should* be in /usr/sbin.

Except that the ethereal rpm doesn't contain the actual ethereal program.
It contains tethereal (which is in /usr/sbin) but ethereal itself is in
ethereal-gnome.

Dave...

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