[CentOS] wireshark 1.12.4

[John R Pierce]

On 4/20/2015 2:07 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Steve Clark<sclark at netwolves.com>  wrote:
>> >
>> >Does anyone know where I could find wireshark-1.12.4 el6 rpm?
> CentOS is not the OS for you if you wish to have the very latest releases of software.
>
> The Wireshark project doesn’t provide Linux binaries, apparently since it’s already shipped by most every Linux distro.  CentOS 6 ships 1.8.10.
>
> If you must have a newer feature than is available in 1.8, you’ll probably have to build it from source.

and... if you do build it from source, I'd recommend building and 
installing it to run in /usr/local/bin  or /opt/something, NOT replacing 
the RPM managed version in /usr/bin ...      since wireshark is simply a 
program, and external stuff should have no dependencies on it, this 
should be fairly straight forward.

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz