Problem with ./configure in Fedora 15 live CD

[ethio]

Hi,
Im having problems installing wireshark on this system.
After I enter the command ./configure, it returns with "configure:error:cannot guess build type; you must specify one". what does this mean?
After reading something included with the configure error description, I tried updating from,
git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD
copy and pasting it to the configure file in /proc/1830/cwd.
It returns with another error now, configure.guess:missing argument
Dont know what I'm doing...

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Is there any reason for compiling wireshark? Its available in sources and you can install it using Package Manager, yum. You are using LiveCD and whatever you install in one session will not be available on next reboot.

In case you want to compile only, try this

./configure --build='i386-pc-linux'

If it doesn't work, check other available options :

 ./configure --help

[ethio]

Ok, I've download yum and typed in "./configure" in the folder directory on the terminal, but it returns with no such file or directory...How do I install this?

[devils casper]

You don't have to download/install yum. Its default Package Manager of Fedora.
Execute this in Terminal :

yum -y install wireshark

[ethio]

When I type in the above command on a package that has not been extracted, it turns up with

Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package wireshark-1.6.2 available.
Error: Nothing to do

and when I extract it to a folder and type the command again I get this...

[root@localhost Downloads]# yum -y install wireshark-1.6.2
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
fedora/metalink | 29 kB 00:00
fedora | 4.2 kB 00:00
fedora/primary_db | 11 MB 00:11
fedora/group | 1.8 MB 00:01
updates/metalink | 20 kB 00:00
updates | 4.7 kB 00:00
url...url
[Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates
Trying other mirror.
updates | 4.7 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db | 3.8 MB 00:03
updates/group | 1.9 MB 00:01
Setting up Install Process
No package wireshark-1.6.2 available.
Error: Nothing to do

[atreyu]

You don't have to run yum on a downloaded package. Yum has a database of available packages already (although you can run yum on a downloaded RPM - that is not what you need to do). Yum will download and install the package (containing the binary executable, libraries, help files, etc.) behind the scenes for you.

Are you sure it is not installed already?

rpm -qv wireshark

Does this command give you a long list of available packages?

yum list available

If not, what does this command tell you?

yum repolist

I assume you have a live internet connection on the Linux Live PC?

[ethio]

Ok, thank you. Now that you've explained a little on how yum works, I went ahead and executed the code yum -y install wireshark, which it did. But I cant find it on Activities> Applications.
Is this because I'm running the live CD?

[yancek]

See post 2 at the link below. It is for Fedora 8 but I doubt if it's changed. You should be able to start it by typing wireshark in a terminal. If you are using a Live CD, you will lose it everytime you reboot as the CD is read-only.

how to run wireshark - FedoraForum.org

[atreyu]

I haven't checked out yancek's thread, but you probably just need to do:

yum install wireshark-gnome

the graphical wrapper for the command line utility is provided with that. That's what I had to do on my F15 box just now to get it installed. Don't know if it'll appear in the apps menu or not, but you should be able to launch it from the terminal with "wireshark".

[ethio]

Ok, well I've got wireshark up and running, but can't do the things I wont.

On the wireshark site I read that you must have packet socket support enabled, and I can see this in the configure.help file. Where is this?