Why no wireshark-gnome package?

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On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/09/11 13:28, carlopmart wrote:
>>
>> On 04/09/2011 10:17 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>>>
>>> Folks,
>>> why is there no wireshark-gnome package in RHEL6 as there is in RHEL5
>>> and all Fedora releases? The wireshark-gnome package is what actually
>>> has the wireshark application. It makes it very hard to debug network
>>> issues without wireshark.
>>
>> wireshark-gnome exists in RHEL6:
>>
>> [carlos at silmaril ~]$ rpm -qa |grep wireshark-gnome
>> wireshark-gnome-1.2.13-1.el6_0.2.i686
>>
>> You can find it in supplementary or optional channel (I don't remember) ..
>>
>>
> My point is that it's not part of the standard install as it is with RHEL5
> and Fedora.  If I do
>
> yum list all | grep wireshark
> wireshark.x86_64                 1.2.15-1.el6_0.1 @rhel-x86_64-workstation-6
> wireshark.i686                   1.2.15-1.el6_0.1 rhel-x86_64-workstation-6
>
> Only the wireshark packages show up.

Subscribe to the optional channel and install it. There are close to
3000 other packages there that just didn't make the cut for the
installation DVD. Not nearly everything fits there any longer.

John