Friday, October 25, 2013

How to install Wireshark on Oracle Linux



After I successfully installed Wireshark on my Oracle Linux 6 machine (yum install wireshark), I was unable to run the wireshark application. There was no application installed anywhere, although I had the documentation and the libraries available.

Solution:
To run the wireshark application, I also need to install the gnome part of it (yum install wireshark-gnome). I found this out by entering

[root ~]# yum list wireshark\*
Loaded plugins: security
Installed Packages
wireshark.x86_64                1.2.15-2.0.1.el6_2.1           @ol6_latest_local
Available Packages
wireshark.i686                  1.2.15-2.0.1.el6_2.1           ol6_latest_local
wireshark-devel.i686            1.2.15-2.0.1.el6_2.1           ol6_latest_local
wireshark-devel.x86_64          1.2.15-2.0.1.el6_2.1           ol6_latest_local
wireshark-gnome.x86_64          1.2.15-2.0.1.el6_2.1           ol6_latest_local


After installing wireshark-gnome, I was immediatly able to run the wireshark application:

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