Installation Checklist ====================== [ ] 0. This is alpha software. Beware. [ ] 1. Make sure you have GTK+ installed. Try running 'gtk-config --version'. If you need to install/reinstall GTK, you can find it at http://www.gtk.org . Ethereal needs gtk+-1.2.0 or above. If you installed GTK+ from a binary package, you may have to install a "development" package; there may be separate "user's" and "developer's" packages, with the former not including header files and the like. For example, Red Hat users will need to install a "gtk-devel" .rpm. [ ] 2. If you want to capture packets, make sure you have libpcap installed. The latest "official" version can be found at http://www.tcpdump.org . If you've downloaded the 0.5.2 version, make sure you install the headers ('make install-incl') when you install the library. The CVS snapshots will install the headers if you do 'make install', and have no 'install-incl' target. If you installed libpcap from a binary package, you may have to install a "development" package; for example, there's apparently a "libpcap0" Debian package, but it just includes a shared library, a copyright notice, changelog files, and a README file - you also need to install a "libpcap-dev" package to get header files, a non-shared library, and the man page. Similarly, Red Hat 5.x users will need to install a "libpcap-devel" .rpm to go along with the "libpcap" .rpm. [ ] 3. Run './configure' in the Ethereal distribution directory. Running './configure --help' displays a list of options. The file 'INSTALL.configure' contains general instructions for using 'configure' and 'make'. Ethereal installs a support file (manuf) in /usr/local/etc by default. You can change this location with the --sysconfdir option. The --disable-pcap option allows you to compile without libpcap. You won't be able to capture packets, but you can read traces that have already been captured to disk by other programs. You can build or not build ethereal, tethereal, and editcap with the appropriate --enable-XXX or --disable-XXX flags. The default is to build everything. If GTK+ is not detected on the system, then ethereal won't be built. [ ] 4. Run 'make'. Hopefully, you won't run into any problems. [ ] 5. Run './ethereal', and make sure things are working. You must have root privileges in order to capture live data. [ ] 6. Run 'make install'. If you wish to install the man page, run 'make install-man'. You're done.