I installed wireshark 1.8.10 on CentOS 6.5. I followed the instructions here to install suriwire on wireshark, both by making the directory ~/wireshark/plugins and copying suriwire.lua and also by making a subdirectory called plugins under /root/.wireshark and copying suriwire.lua there. I also run wireshark both as root and as unprivileged. However, when I pull down the tools menu, there is only and it is disabled. asked 01 Dec '14, 18:02  OtagoHarbour |
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Check the 'About Wireshark' dialog, accessible from the Help menu. It has to state that your Wireshark instance is build with Lua support ("...with Lua 5.1....") If that's the case then check if your answered 02 Dec '14, 01:07  Jaap ♦ |
That seems to be the problem. It says that it was built without lua support. I will try rebuilding it with lua support this evening. I will let you know how it works. Thanks very much,
I unpacked the tarball for Wireshark 1.12.2 and entered "sudo ./configure --with-lua"/ It failed with the message "configure: error: Qt is not available". I have qt-4.6.2-28.el6_5.i686 installed. Thanks,
As Qt based GUI lacks many features in the 1.12 branch, I highly recommend you to execute ./configure with the --with-gtk2 or --with-gtk3 option. Of course you will need to have the GTK2 or GTK3 development package installed.
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