Aptitude Errors - Install from Desktop

[killswitch]

Hey all,

Having yet another issue with installing software on Ubuntu. I've decided to go a different route after not being able to unzip tar files at the command line.

1. downloaded Wireshark and it's dependencies to USB from Wireshark-0.99.6

2. Stuck USB drive into Linux machine, mounted automatically

3. Stuck the tar.bz2 and tar.gz files for Wireshark on my desktop

4. Right clicked them and selected "extract here"

5. cd Desktop

6. sudo aptitude install wireshark

Reply: No candidate version found for Wireshark

7. sudo aptitude install wireshark-0.99.6

Reply: Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "wireshark-0.99.6"


Feedback is most appreciated

[reed9]

Aptitude is a package manager that downloads and installs software from online repositories. It does not install files you have already downloaded. Also, the tarballs you downloaded are likely the source code, so you would need to compile them first.

However, wireshark is available in the Ubuntu repos.
Ubuntu -- Details of package wireshark in jaunty

Enable the multiverse section and then (with an internet connection) do

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install wireshark

EDIT: That should be universe not multiverse.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware

[Kieren]

Going on a previous post he does not have an Internet connection on the computer so that solution won't work. As mentioned in the previous post he will need to install a compiler such as gcc and automake as a minimum but installing build-essential would be preferable.

build-essential is available as a .deb file from Ubuntu -- Package Download Selection -- build-essential_11.4_i386.deb for Intel x86 machines

[killswitch]

I think I already have build essential:

build essential is already the newest version

Also, I cannot run ./configure

It says "Command not found / is not a directory"

[Kieren]

When you right clicked and selected "extract here" a directory would have been created. You will need to be in that directory before ./configure will work

[reed9]

According to the wireshark wiki, you need to generate the config file first.

./autogen.sh
./configure