Eric Lecht wrote: []
I know i'm missing something, but how do i actually RUN ethereal? Tried 'ethereal' at the command prompt. That didn't work:
It did work, it just didn't do what you expected it to do.
Eric-Lechts-Computer:/ elecht$ ethereal
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
This means that your DISPLAY environment variable was not set. And X11 was probably not running. So what you did then was correct:
Eric-Lechts-Computer:/usr elecht$ startx
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 49: syntax error near unexpected token `'''
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 49: ` XCOMM '' required to prevent cpp from treating "/*" as a C comment.'
This is a bug in the startx script. I am surprised that you are seeing *this* bug, because you said you had Apple's X11 installed. The /usr/X11R6/bin/startx from Apple's X11 has a bug, but not this one, AFAICT. This one showed up in some self-compiled versions. Anyway, you can edit the text file /usr/X11R6/bin/startx and replace all the XCOMM occurrences by "#". Or run the following command
sudo perl -pi.bak -e 's|XCOMM|#|g' /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
I can't find anything in documentation that really says how to run something once installed a la fink....
There is no general rule (except RTFM, "read the Fink manual"). You can find what executables are installed by a package by running e.g.
dpkg -L ethereal |grep bin
-- Martin
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