Wireshark Install / dpkg Problems

[killswitch]

Hey All,

As I had a feeling, I am having problems getting Wireshark installed and unpackaged in Ubuntu. Here is the procedure I've taken:

(Note: I DO NOT have internet on the Linux machine yet)

1. Downloaded i386 .deb file onto my Windows desktop and threw the .deb file onto USB stick. Site: Ubuntu -- Error

2. Plugged USB into the drive, mounted it without a problem

3. Sudo dpkg -i wireshark_1.0.7-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

Following error message given:

pam_mount(pam_mount.c:100): unknown pam_mount option "use_first_pass"
dpkg: error processing wireshark_1.0.7-1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: no such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
wireshark_1.0.7-1ubuntu1_i386.deb


Any ideas?

[Kieren]

This looks to be a bug in libpam-mount rather than Wireshark. You can try to remove the pam_mount line in /etc/pam.d/common-pammount as described on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...nt/+bug/332833

[killswitch]

Actually I've made some progress, but I am still being halted.

I wasn't in the USB directory when I ran the previous command, so I went to cd /media/Cruzer, and I ran the same command, and now:

I get errors stating that the Wireshark dependencies are not installed.

Needs:

libadns1
liblua5.1-0
wireshark-common

Do you know where I can find them?

[Kieren]

Go to Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Packages Search

Paste the name of the each dependency in to the search box. If it can't find any then try Google. If still no luck then give us a shout. Each dependency way require more packages so this process may take some time!

[killswitch]

Yeah I haven't had much luck trying to find the dependencies on google.

So I went to Wireshark.org and downloaded the source code (tar.bz2) to my USB and threw it onto my Linux machine.

I unpacked it without a problem with:

cd media/Cruzer

sudo tar xvfj wireshark-1.2.1.tar.bz2

Now it is done unpacking, is there anything I have to do to get it to run now? Because it is now just sitting at the command line waiting for a command after the unpack.

[Kieren]

The source code will need compiling. You may not have the required packages to compile yet but let's give it a go anyway...

EDIT: Make sure you cd into the directory that now exists after your tar command. It's probably called wireshark followed by the version number.

Most source code can be compiled automatically with 3 commands:

./configure
make 
sudo make install

If you get any errors it's probably going to be during ./configure and be because there is no compiler. In that case install build-essential first

[killswitch]

Yeah I'm having a difficult time with it. I am going to put a new post up because I went a different route, and now I am stuck again, lol