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I tried posting this earlier but it seems to have"evaporated". (I could have hit the wrong button. Sorry if the following ends up being a duplicate somewhere.)


I am wanting to install a protocol analyzer for network monitoring (as a GUI) on my Antix desktop (running XFCE).

Wireshark looks a good choice.

In the repos there are 3 options for downloading Wireshark:
(1) The GTK version;
(2) The Qt version; and
(3) A Console version.

I did some quick reading and there may be issues between GTK and Qt (as different programming methods/bases).

To minimize any disruption to the Antix/XFCE install (that is NO reflection on Antix or XFCE), or overloading the pkgs on the system, which is the best version to download and use in XFCE on Antix?

[If there is a much better alternative to this then by all means suggest it. My prefence is to remain at the GUI, so if there is a CLI alternative then it needs to be pretty SIMPLE.]

Regards,

By and large gtk interfaces will bring fewer dependencies than qt based interfaces. That said there are already some qt based apps in antix. Namely the installer.

I have always done in root terminal
apt-get update && apt-get -f install wireshark

Brings most things needed to get going with wireshark in, including a gui. Iirc some of the more advanced functions within wireshark would require additional packages.