You need to install ethereal-gnome to run the GUI. Ethereal only has text-based sniffer, use tethereal command to launch it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Knirsch [mailto:pknirsch@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thu, December 12, 2002 11:42 AM
> To: psyche-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Ethereal - installed and not working
>
>
> Augusto Cezar Amaral wrote:
> > Hi. I have Red Hat 8.0 running here and the rpm -q command
> tells me that
> > ethereal is installed on the system. But when I try to launch it, I
> > receive an error message.
> >
> > Does someone experienced something similar?? How can I solve this??
> >
>
> If you want to use the graphical version you need to install
> the ethereal-gnome,
> otherwise only tetheral is available.
>
> The reason for this split is not to require all kinds of X11
> and gtk libraries
> for a simple network analyzer on server installations.
>
> Read ya, Phil
>
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