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@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ Installation Checklist You won't be able to capture packets, but you can read traces that have already been captured to disk by other programs. - You can build or not build ethereal, tethereal, editcap, and - mergecap with the appropriate --enable-XXX or --disable-XXX flags. - The default is to build everything. If GTK+ is not detected - on the system, then ethereal won't be built. + You can build or not build ethereal, tethereal, editcap, and + mergecap with the appropriate --enable-XXX or --disable-XXX + flags. The default is to build everything. If GTK+ is not + detected on the system, then ethereal won't be built. [ ] 4. Run 'make'. Hopefully, you won't run into any problems. @@ -60,4 +60,19 @@ Installation Checklist have root privileges in order to capture live data. [ ] 6. Run 'make install'. If you wish to install the man page, run - 'make install-man'. You're done. + 'make install-man'. If you're running a system that supports + the Apt, RPM, or System V Release 4 packaging systems, you can + run one of + + make debian-package # Builds a binary package using dpkg + make rpm-package # Builds a binary package using rpm + make srpm-package # Builds a source package using rpm + make svr4-package # Builds a source package using pkgmk + make solaris-package # Same as "make svr4-package" + + to make an installable package for your system. + +If you have trouble with the build or installation process, you can +find assistance on the ethereal-users and ethereal-dev mailing lists. +See http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ for details. + |