How to install Wireshark 1.82.3 on RHEL 5
 

Please tell me from scratch because i am new to RHEL 5 and i have only Wireshark tar file. So tell me steps starting from basic for how to install Wireshark 1.82.3 on RHEL 5

Post #5, @ milind.t.patil : Welcome to LQ.

The latest wireshark is version 1.8.4 : Not usable on RHEL 5 ...
RHEL 5 is an old OS (2007), the build prerequisites for new versions of wireshark are not available.

Please use version 1.0.15 : # yum install wireshark

Thanks knudfl for your reply. But i have only Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installed in virtual machine and virtual machine on windows XP. Shall i download setup of version you have suggested from http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/cent....i386.rpm.html
After that what i have to do please guide me from basic steps for example where to keep that downloaded packages to install. What steps i have to follow. I am totally new to Red Hat so i can't understand because of its complex nature. Please help me out to sort out this wireshark installation problem.
Thanks in advance for next your reply.

# 7 . 'wireshark-gnome' is not the basic package. 'wireshark' is.

Packages, wireshark* ( If your OS is 32bits. ( $ uname -m )) :
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.8/os/i386/CentOS/

Ok i have downloaded that rpm files from website you have suggested now please tell me the steps to proceed.

1) su <password>

2) rpm -Uvh wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
.. and if some other packages ( dependencies for wireshark )
are missing, you will have to install those too.

3) rpm -Uvh wireshark-gnome-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.i386.rpm


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Hey I have followed your step 1 and 2. But in second step I got this error (given below)now what should i do? Please help...

[root@localhost admin]# rpm -Uvh wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
warning: wireshark-1.0.15-1.el5_6.4.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:wireshark ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/libwireshark.so.0.0.1;50c557a9: cpio: read
[root@localhost admin]#

# 11 . The warning can be ignored.

The cpio error : A corrupt wireshark package ?

The EL 5 packages are here too :
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux...ic/58/i386/SL/
→ → please try with a new download of the package.

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Thank you buddy... It works, i have successfully installed the wireshark in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 in my virtual machine.
Thanks again.