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# Date Author Comment
3e1fec0d 08/13/2014 12:00 PM Jeff Morriss

More INSTALL updates.

- We now support Gtk+-3, Gtk+-2, and Qt (Gtk+-1 is long dead).
- Sync several of the configure options to what ./configure actually does
(don't bother listing features which default to disabled though).
- Don't mention sysconfdir since manuf doesn't go there any more (it goes...

61d522ff 08/12/2014 07:59 PM Jeff Morriss

Indicate that Python is required to compile Wireshark.

Remove some trailing white space at the same time.

(The ./configure options in INSTALL are significantly out of date--that will
be the subject of a separate commit.)

Change-Id: I3c03f90dab099e6d3386a235f35b691e7ff671be...

7db21350 06/11/2014 07:50 PM Guy Harris

A Subversion->Git change that we missed.

Change-Id: I651d25cb0a59f9ec350d4c482062077833c8f278
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/2149
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <>

a08cbe70 06/09/2014 06:02 PM Balint Reczey

Use only dpkg-buildpackage for building .debs

This makes .deb generation not depending on autotools and also removes
debian-package target from autotools-generated Makefile.

Change-Id: Ia684cd310d85906763af1035fddf39c1fbaed984
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/2052...

94a791a7 03/31/2014 12:00 PM Alexis La Goutte

Continue to remove $Id$ from top of file

(Using sed : sed -i '/^\$Id\$/,+1 d') (No space or star before $Id$)

Change-Id: I0801bd7cf234d32487008a8b6dcee64875b07688
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/876
Reviewed-by: Evan Huus <>

60fb6378 09/24/2012 06:23 AM Martin Mathieson

From Jim Young, bug 7745.

Add Makefile support for reordercap.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=45090

f15662ea 11/22/2011 08:53 AM Balint Reczey

Unconditionally install idl2wrs

svn path=/trunk/; revision=39985

35f18962 06/17/2011 05:17 PM Stig Bjørlykke

Added 'make osx-package' for building binary package for OSX.
Corrected text describing 'make svr4-package'.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=37700

6cd62e9e 04/09/2010 05:42 PM Gerald Combs

Rename README.win32 to README.windows and add a 64-bit download link.

Add tools/textify.sh, which makes a Notepad-clickable copy of a text
file. Use it for COPYING, NEWS, README, README.windows, and help/*.txt.

Remove tools/unix2dos.pl and use Cygwin's u2d instead....

3045ad69 10/29/2008 08:26 AM Sake Blok

Add a note in INSTALL that GTK+ 1.2[.x] is only supported up to
Wireshark 1.0.x

svn path=/trunk/; revision=26617

598a10ec 04/10/2008 04:34 PM Jeff Morriss

Wireshark is no longer beta software. But it's still software. :-)

svn path=/trunk/; revision=24880

63a03789 04/07/2008 04:27 PM Jeff Morriss

Building Wireshark requires Perl (pod2man) so say so.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=24835

ec74de59 03/24/2008 12:22 PM Gerald Combs

dumpcap.c: Fix a typo.
INSTALL: Add entries for libcap.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=24722

245d0ea2 03/17/2008 05:26 PM Anders Broman

From William Pursell:
Minor errors in the documentation, and an Ethereal reference

svn path=/trunk/; revision=24673

b202480f 02/26/2008 08:22 PM Gerald Combs

Expand the setuid text a bit.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=24485

45a373d6 02/26/2008 03:05 PM Gerald Combs

Wrap a line in the INSTALL file and correct some text in README.packaging.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=24481

718cf133 02/26/2008 09:52 AM Bill Meier

Update to be closer to current *nix Wireshark; (Addt'l info about setuid, etc needed).

svn path=/trunk/; revision=24469

dfe59f98 02/18/2008 06:21 PM Bill Meier

$ID$ --> $Id$

svn path=/trunk/; revision=24383

5b8da491 02/18/2008 05:39 PM Bill Meier

Add $Id$

svn path=/trunk/; revision=24382

485ba80e 01/07/2008 04:16 PM Stig Bjørlykke

From Marton Nemeth (bug 2168):
Add reference to Wiki in INSTALL.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=24025

c21f42cf 12/08/2006 08:37 PM Guy Harris

We no longer support UCD SNMP - and do support Net-SNMP, and have
supported it for quite a while.

Also, note that it might not even be possible to run Wireshark set-UID.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=20075

a67ef251 07/31/2006 05:11 PM Guy Harris

Update to deal with GTK+ and GLib 2.x, where you use "pkg-config" to see
what version is installed, if any.

Clean up indentation.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=18808

86eaf399 06/17/2006 08:30 AM Ronnie Sahlberg

ethereal to wireshark

svn path=/trunk/; revision=18503

8d6c73e5 05/31/2006 06:34 PM Gerald Combs

More ethereal -> wireshark.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=18292

eb71f7fb 05/31/2006 03:12 PM Gerald Combs

Rename the main executable to "wireshark", along with more conversions:

ethereal.com -> wireshark.org
mailing lists and addresses
ETHEREAL -> WIRESHARK
Man pages
Automake/Autoconf names

svn path=/trunk/; revision=18271

8958bab6 05/31/2006 01:38 PM Gerald Combs

Tethereal/tethereal -> TShark/tshark.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=18268

b15974d0 05/30/2006 08:23 PM Gerald Combs

libethereal -> libwireshark. idl2eth -> idl2wrs. There are a lot of
changes here. It compiles OK on OS X, but hasn't been tested anywhere else.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=18260

6075ec39 05/22/2006 04:21 AM Ronnie Sahlberg

ethereal->wireshark

svn path=/trunk/; revision=18207

f0b33a47 05/22/2006 04:14 AM Ronnie Sahlberg

ethereal->wireshark updates

svn path=/trunk/; revision=18206

837934ea 06/02/2005 03:17 AM Guy Harris

Note that this is not what you use if you're building from Subversion.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=14521

36d16112 04/16/2005 03:16 PM Ulf Lamping

we are in beta, not alpha state any more :-)

svn path=/trunk/; revision=14099

fe876099 08/20/2004 01:48 PM Guy Harris

Update to reflect GTK+/GLib 2.x now being the default.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=11782

fd9f317f 09/03/2003 03:11 AM Richard Sharpe

Fix the documentation that I forgot to fix when I fixed --with-ucd-snmp.

Thanks to Tom Uijldert <>.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=8355

477e939a 01/29/2003 05:55 PM Laurent Deniel

Add some missing specific configure options.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=7035

6c20421d 04/13/2002 06:11 PM Guy Harris

Update to reflect the replacement of "--enable-zlib"/"--disable-zlib"
with "--with-zlib"/"--without-zlib", and the added support for
"--with-zlib=DIR".

Update to reflect the replacement of "--disable-snmp" with
"--without-ucdsnmp".

Note "--without-pcap" is what you'd use to build on a system without...

709080b3 03/10/2002 09:12 PM Guy Harris

Update various README and INSTALL files to reflect the requirement for
UCD SNMP 4.2.2 or later if you want MIB-reading support.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=4926

f8aecbe4 01/31/2002 11:51 AM Gilbert Ramirez

Change format of INSTALL text, removing the square-bracket
check-boxes.

Describe in detail the non-generic configure switches.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=4653

b11f1955 01/20/2002 06:05 PM Gerald Combs

Revamp the RPM building process. For versions of rpm that support
"--define", we now build the RPM and SRPM packages in packages/rpm.
As a result, one need not be root to build RPM-based packages.

Move the specfile to packaging/rpm/SPECS.

Update the INSTALL document to include the various packaging makefile...

e9d00f4a 07/12/2001 03:59 PM Guy Harris

Mergecap utility for merging capture files, from Scott Renfro.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=3701

038774d5 11/21/2000 11:03 PM Gilbert Ramirez

Enable the building of any combination of ethereal, tethereal, and editcap.
If GTK+ is not detected, then ethereal is not built.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2695

5e319709 11/08/2000 04:33 PM Guy Harris

Note that the current CVS version of libpcap from tcpdump.org doesn't
have, doesn't require, an "install-incl" Make target.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2582

a1038590 07/22/2000 03:28 PM Guy Harris

The latest version of libpcap is now at www.tcpdump.org, not at LBL.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2153

f92b3b74 12/28/1999 04:06 AM Guy Harris

You shouldn't need to install "libtool" just to compile and install
Ethereal (it didn't appear to be necessary when I tried it). It may be
necessary if you're going to do development, but the same applies to
"automake" and "autoconf" - we should document that somewhere, giving...

3425cafc 12/27/1999 10:03 PM Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino

libtool 1.3.4 is required (1.3.3 did not work. i'm not sure what happens
when 1.3.5 comes out).

svn path=/trunk/; revision=1381

61604233 11/22/1999 10:50 PM Gilbert Ramirez

Add AIX doco and modify references to it.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=1096

3764b0a3 08/27/1999 06:57 PM Gilbert Ramirez

Updated docs.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=594

5a7e28ca 07/09/1999 12:18 AM Gilbert Ramirez

Added the ability to create a read-only ethereal, i.e., one that
doesn't link with libpcap, so no packet captures can be made. The
"--disable-pcap" option has been added to the configure script. Docs
have been updated. And the string buffer size in the simple_dialog()...

f453647c 05/04/1999 02:26 PM Guy Harris

Update it to note that GTK+ has stable 1.2.x versions now.

Add a note warning that if you installed GTK+ from a binary package, it
may be a "user's" package, and you may also have to install the
"developer's" package.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=255

2301bf5e 12/28/1998 10:12 PM Gerald Combs
  • Installation documentation updates

svn path=/trunk/; revision=141

86534f46 09/15/1998 10:39 PM Gerald Combs

Initial revision

svn path=/trunk/; revision=2