For a course that I am doing I need to run Wireshark on Lenny. The Lenny Wireshark package does not run, either on this occasion or previously. By "does not run" I mean that I can open it up, but I have found nothing that I can persuade it to do. It just sits there.
On the previous occasion I solved the problem by running Wireshark on Squeeze on my test-bed machine. This time I am having to run both Wireshark and Virtual Box on the same machine, and with a lot of memory (by my standards). I have not got the possibility of running Squeeze or Wheezy on a machine with enough grunt to run Virtual box with a gig or more of RAM, which is not running Lenny. None of my machines could happily spare 1GB RAM, only one has that much memory installed, and as of now it is not possible to use that one to run Squeeze. So I am trying - and failing - to install the tar-ball. I have tried Wireshark 1.7.0 tar-ball and Wireshark 1.6.4, with identical results. It seems to me to be identifying what build I am running. But I have followed instructions, downloaded the scripts it asks for, made them executable and moved them into my PATH. But I still get exactly the same result when I run configure. (See below.) I am getting desperate. I need to run Wireshark and Virtual Box on Lenny. Can anyone advise me how? Lisi <quote> Junior:/home/lisi/FTA/Wireless_Technologies/wireshark-1.7.0# ./configure checking build system type... ./config.guess: unable to guess system type This script, last modified 2009-06-10, has failed to recognize the operating system you are using. It is advised that you download the most up to date version of the config scripts from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD and http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD If the version you run (./config.guess) is already up to date, please send the following data and any information you think might be pertinent to <config-patc...@gnu.org> in order to provide the needed information to handle your system. config.guess timestamp = 2009-06-10 uname -m = i686 uname -r = 2.6.32-bpo.5-686 uname -s = Linux uname -v = #1 SMP Mon Jul 25 21:10:31 UTC 2011 /usr/bin/uname -p = /bin/uname -X = hostinfo = /bin/universe = /usr/bin/arch -k = /bin/arch = /usr/bin/oslevel = /usr/convex/getsysinfo = UNAME_MACHINE = i686 UNAME_RELEASE = 2.6.32-bpo.5-686 UNAME_SYSTEM = Linux UNAME_VERSION = #1 SMP Mon Jul 25 21:10:31 UTC 2011 configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one Junior:/home/lisi/FTA/Wireless_Technologies/wireshark-1.7.0# </quote> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112041047.14273.lisi.re...@gmail.com
