[Slackbuilds-users] wireshark issues

Nick Blizzard nickblizzard1776 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 13:40:29 UTC 2011


I solved this by removing the old wireshark package, rebuilding the new one
and installing it. No issues.
On Oct 11, 2011 9:38 AM, "Chris ABELA" <chris.abela at maltats.com> wrote:

>  I have an updated 13.37 32 bit installation plus 117 SBo packages,
> nothing else. ****
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> I upgraded wireshark to 1.6.1 from 1.4.6 and it fails to start:****
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> ~ $ wireshark ****
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> wireshark: error while loading shared libraries: libwsutil.so.0: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory****
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> ~ $****
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> wireshark 1.4.6 works/worked fine.****
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> This was solved as follows:****
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> # cd /usr/lib****
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> # ln –s libwsutil.so.1.0.0 libwsutil.so.0****
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> And similarly:****
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> # ln –s libwiretrap.so.1.0.0 libwiretrap.so.0****
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> (BTW I wonder if this would unleash a dependency hell in other distros)***
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> I also failed to start wireshark in the recommended method in the README:*
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> /sbin/setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip /usr/bin/dumpcap****
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> unable to set CAP_SETFCAP effective capability: Operation not permitted***
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> Actually, normally I rely on kdesu to start wireshark, as otherwise dumpcap
> looks similar to tcpdump, which is not what I want, but I would appreciate
> an explanation on how it should work.****
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> Chris****
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