#591584 wireshark: Wireshark is of no use on servers

Package:
wireshark
Source:
wireshark
Description:
network traffic analyzer - meta-package
Submitter:
Nigel Horne
Date:
2010-08-04 11:15:08 UTC
Severity:
minor
#591584#5
Date:
2010-08-04 02:29:53 UTC
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Wireshark requires an X session, which results in the software being
unrunable on what you would expect to be the target market, i.e. servers.

Try ssh to a server.  Go to root then:
sh-4.1# wireshark -D

(wireshark:15621): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
sh-4.1#
#591584#10
Date:
2010-08-04 10:51:08 UTC
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severity 591584 minor
tags 591584 wontfix upstream
thanks

Hi Nigel,

Wireshark is intended to be used as a graphical network analyzer.

There are several packages built from the wireshark source package[1]:
 * tshark contains the tshark program which provides most of wireshark's
   functions from CLI
 * wireshark contains the well known wireshark program with the GUI
 * wireshark-common provides dumpcap which can be used for capturing
   network traffic without analyzing it.

Cheers,
Balint

[1] http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/wireshark

2010/8/4 Nigel Horne <njh@bandsman.co.uk>:
#591584#19
Date:
2010-08-04 11:11:33 UTC
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Thanks for the information.