Install Ethereal GUI on linux 9
By Yu Cai

Linux 9 has text mode ethereal called tethereal installed already.
If you want to install ethereal GUI on linux, you might have problems with package independencies.
Especially for newest version of ethereal. The independencies is kind of messy.
You had better install old version of ethereal.

1) Download all the related packages from below

ethereal-0.8.14-1.i386.rpm

libpcap-0.4-29.i386.rpm

2) Remove old packages installed on your machine
Try to run the following command

rpm -ivh libpcap-0.4-29.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh ethereal-0.8.14-1.i386.rpm

If you see conflict or independencies errors, then remove the conflict packages,
for example:

rpm -e ethereal-0.9.11-1
rpm -e libcap-0.7.2-1

3) Then install packages again.

rpm -ivh libpcap-0.4-29.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh ethereal-0.8.14-1.i386.rpm

4) To start ethereal GUI, run "startx" to start x windows, then open a terminal window,
type "ethereal &" to start it.