[PLUG] rpm installation help, please

[Carla Schroder]

Ha. Nailed it. Building from source was a breeze. Get a single big tarball at 
ftp://ftp.ethereal.com/pub/ethereal/  Do what INSTALL says. Don't forget to 
'make install' as root. Everything else can be done as an underprivileged 
user.

sheesh!

Carla

On Tuesday 06 August 2002 02:09 am, you wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > Ethereal is a sterling example of how not to build an RPM. I've been
> > fussing with it all afternoon- it's been an interesting education. To
> > heck with the damned RPMs. The machines I use it on, it was installed
> > during the original Linux installation. I'm going to try building from
> > source and see what happens. The libs are on my test system, but not in
> > the RPM database- seems like there was a thread on this not too long ago.
>
> Carla,
>
>   I built ethereal from source then was sent a working rpm that's known to
> work on a RH 6.2 system. It works just fine.
>
>   When a library is built from source it's not registered in the package
> database. If the rpm installation reports that dependency is missing, but
> 'locate' confirms it's installed, just use the '--nodeps' switch and the
> rpm will install and run without complaints or problems.
>
>   If anyone wants a copy of:
>
> /usr1/rpm-packages/ethereal-base-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm
> /usr1/rpm-packages/ethereal-gtk+-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm
> /usr1/rpm-packages/ethereal-usermode-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm
>
>   I'll be happy to push them your way as attachments; about 2.7M worth of
> tools.
>
> Rich
>
>
>
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