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[Package Request] - wireshark-gnome

Open gmpalter opened this issue 7 months ago • 2 comments

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2023? Please describe and include package name.

Now that Amazon Linux 2023 has a desktop, having the GUI interface to Wireshark would be helpful. In particular, the package wireshark-gnome and, possibly, wireshark.

Is this an update to existing package or new package request?

New package

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2? If it is available via external sources such as EPEL, please specify.

wireshark.x86_64                1.10.14-24.amzn2               @amzn2-core
wireshark-gnome.x86_64          1.10.14-24.amzn2               @amzn2-core

Any additional information you'd like to include. (use-cases, etc)

My client runs several applications on Amazon Linux 2023 and, while originally porting them to Amazon Linux 2, I found Wireshark indispensable in debugging the interactions between their applications and various services (e.g., NFS, Oracle).

gmpalter avatar May 14 '25 19:05 gmpalter

@gmpalter wireshark-cli is available in al2023!

elsaco avatar May 14 '25 21:05 elsaco

wireshark upstream deprecated their gnome/gtk GUI with version 3.0 (we ship 4.4.2). The only supported GUI frontend is the Qt one, but we don't ship Qt at this point. If/when we add Qt6 we then probably could re-enable the wireshark GUI. So far we haven't been getting a whole lot of requests for Qt though.

ozbenh avatar May 15 '25 19:05 ozbenh