Re: HELP !!! confused trying to install tshark on wheezy
On 27/02/14 08:38, Kirt Odle wrote:
> I am very new to Debian ( and any other linux ) and I'm trying to install tshark.
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> I've downloaded tshark and have run the command ... dpkg -i tshark_1.8.2-5wheezy9_i386.deb
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> This printed out a lot of errors and listed missing libraries and other dependencies.
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> However, I am very confused on how to figure out which dependency files I need to download for my i386 and which ones I don't need.
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> This seems to be very labor intensive, and I'm wondering if I can somehow get Wheezy to automatically determine, download and install all the dependencies based on the version of Debian and tshark I have.
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> Please help if you can. I am fairly computer literate, but not linux at all. This is my first attempt.
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> thanks
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> Kirt Odle
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>
At this point tshark is installed, but not configured (as it lack
dependencies. To finish installing it you need the dependencies
installed, and everything configured. That's simple:-
# apt-get -f install
NOTE: the # means run as root. Either:-
$ sudo apt-get -f install (if you have sudo installed) OR:-
$ su -c "apt-get -f install" (if you don't have sudo installed)
If one of the resulting actions is to "remove tshark" just continue, and
when "apt-get -f install" is finished:-
# apt-get install tshark (tshark will not need to be downloaded again
as it'll be sitting in /etc/cache/apt/archives).
*What you did*:-
# dpkg -i tshark*.debSelecting previously unselected package tshark.
(Reading database ... 177857 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tshark (from tshark_1.8.2-5wheezy9_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tshark:
tshark depends on libpcap0.8 (>= 0.9.8); however:
Package libpcap0.8:i386 is not installed.
tshark depends on libwireshark2 (>= 1.8.0~rc1-1); however:
Package libwireshark2 is not installed.
tshark depends on wireshark-common (= 1.8.2-5wheezy9); however:
Package wireshark-common is not installed.
dpkg: error processing tshark (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
tshark
*What you need to do*:-
# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libpcap0.8 libwireshark-data libwireshark2 wireshark-common
Suggested packages:
wireshark-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpcap0.8 libwireshark-data libwireshark2 wireshark-common
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 12.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 49.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
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*What you'll get*:-
$ tshark -v
TShark 1.8.2
Copyright 1998-2012 Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled (32-bit) with GLib 2.32.4, with libpcap, with libz 1.2.7, with
POSIX
capabilities (Linux), with SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares 1.9.1, with Lua 5.1,
without
Python, with GnuTLS 2.12.20, with Gcrypt 1.5.0, with MIT Kerberos, with
GeoIP.
Running on Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae, with locale en_AU.UTF-8, with libpcap
version
1.3.0, with libz 1.2.7.
Built using gcc 4.7.2.
Kind regards
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