Compile Wireshark in Ubuntu 12.04

Time to move on. 10.04 was a good LTS, now let's do the same for 12.04. The procedure is relatively the same, only few things have changed.

Download source from http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Now the version is 1.10.2. The rest of the material is about 1.8.3, but the compilation works the same way.
Note the file image/wsicon32.xpm is missing by some reason. Before running compilation create it using  image/wsicon32.png and imagemagic like this:

$ convert image/wsicon32.png image/wsicon32.xpm

I'm also covering this issue later on the process.

Since 1.8.3 there were some additional features added, as example using c-ares, GNU ADNS and SMI MIB libraries. It also fixes http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-26.html, http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-27.html and http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2012-29.html.

$ tar -jxf wireshark-1.8.3.tar.bz2

# read INSTALL and check dependencies
$ pkg-config glib-2.0 --modversion

$ gtk-config --version

# install dependencies
$ sudo aptitude install --add-user-tag wir libgtk2.0-dev
$ pkg-config glib-2.0 --modversion # confirm that it's working now

$ pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --modversion

# Good, let's install the rest of dependencies.
$ sudo aptitude install --add-user-tag wir libgtk2.0-dev libpcap0.8-dev bison flex libssl-dev libgnutls-dev libpcre3-dev libadns1-dev libc-ares-dev libsmi2-dev # I have libpcap0.8 installed already, you may need to install it as well.

./configure --with-ssl --with-gnutls --with-c-ares --with-libsmi

# two possible ways from here - traditional make, or Debian/Ubuntu making .deb pakages
## Use method #1 for 10.04, this way the compilation completes nowadays in this old Ubuntu version, making debian packages fail because of libraries dependencies. For making debian-package in 12.04 use #2

## 1
# this one was not tested for missing 
$ make -j4; make install # if make is followed by make debian-package the whole compilation runs from the beginning. Skip this step and go to #2 instead; using -j4 to better use my 4 core CPU

## 2
# add dependencies
$ sudo aptitude install --add-user-tag wir dpatch libtool automake1.9 autoconf autotools-dev libc-ares-dev docbook-xsl libpcre3-dev libcap-dev libgnutls-dev portaudio19-dev libkrb5-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libsmi2-dev libgeoip-dev xsltproc # adding dependent packages for .deb building, xsltproc is additional this time

# ...and make



$ if [  -f image/wsicon32.xpm ]; then convert image/wsicon32.png image/wsicon32.xpm; fi # fix missing image/wsicon32.xpm if not done already

$ make -j4 debian-package

# install (packages are one directory up)
$ sudo dpkg -i wireshark wireshark-common tshark

#now clean packages installed to resolve dependencies. This time it takes aptitude 4 steps to propose the solution we want:

$ sudo aptitude purge '?user-tag(wir)'


 The following packages will be REMOVED:   autoconf{p} ...
...
...
...  zlib1g-dev{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 114 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 113 MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libportaudio2 : Depends: libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) but it is not going to be installed. or
                          libjack-0.116 which is a virtual package.
 audacious-plugins : Depends: libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) but it is not going to be installed. or
                              libjack-0.116 which is a virtual package.
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good : Depends: libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) but it is not going to be installed. or
                                       libjack-0.116 which is a virtual package.
 mplayer2 : Depends: libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) but it is not going to be installed. or
                     libjack-0.116 which is a virtual package.
 libfluidsynth1 : Depends: libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.5~dfsg-14) but it is not going to be installed. or
                           libjack-0.116 which is a virtual package.
 wireshark-common : Depends: libc-ares2 (>= 1.7.0) but it is not going to be installed.
                    Depends: liblua5.1-0 but it is not going to be installed.
                    Depends: libsmi2ldbl but it is not going to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Remove the following packages:
1)      audacious
2)      audacious-plugins
3)      gecko-mediaplayer
4)      gnome-mplayer
5)      gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
6)      guvcview
7)      libfarstream-0.1-0
8)      libfluidsynth1
9)      libportaudio2
10)     libpurple0
11)     mplayer2
12)     pidgin
13)     pidgin-microblog
14)     tshark
 15)     wireshark
16)     wireshark-common

      Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
17)     lubuntu-desktop recommends audacious
18)     lubuntu-desktop recommends audacious-plugins
19)     lubuntu-desktop recommends gecko-mediaplayer
20)     lubuntu-desktop recommends gnome-mplayer
21)     lubuntu-desktop recommends guvcview
22)     lubuntu-desktop recommends pidgin
23)     lubuntu-desktop recommends pidgin-microblog
24)     pidgin recommends gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
25)     audacious-plugins-data recommends audacious-plugins


Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1)     tshark
2)     wireshark
3)     wireshark-common

     Install the following packages:
4)     libjack-jackd2-0 [1.9.8~dfsg.1-1ubuntu1 (now, precise)]



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1)     tshark
2)     wireshark
3)     wireshark-common

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
4)     libjack0 [1:0.121.0+svn4538-3ubuntu1 (now, precise)]



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Install the following packages:
1)     libjack-jackd2-0 [1.9.8~dfsg.1-1ubuntu1 (now, precise)]

      Keep the following packages at their current version:
2)     libc-ares2 [1.7.5-1 (now, precise)]
3)     liblua5.1-0 [5.1.4-12ubuntu1 (now, precise)]
4)     libsmi2ldbl [0.4.8+dfsg2-4build1 (now, precise)]



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]y

# final notes:  as this was an experiment, removing wireshark actually removes all the dependencies left from previous step:

$ sudo aptitude purge wireshark wireshark-common tshark
The following packages will be REMOVED: 
  libc-ares2{u} liblua5.1-0{u} libsmi2ldbl{u} tshark{p} wireshark{p} wireshark-common{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 53.7 MB will be freed.

# final-final notes: doing new installation on the same machine fail because of dependencies:

 $ sudo dpkg -i wireshark_1.8.3_i386.deb wireshark-common_1.8.3_i386.deb tshark_1.8.3_i386.deb
Selecting previously unselected package wireshark.
(Reading database ... 104217 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking wireshark (from wireshark_1.8.3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package wireshark-common.
Unpacking wireshark-common (from wireshark-common_1.8.3_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package tshark.
Unpacking tshark (from tshark_1.8.3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wireshark-common:
 wireshark-common depends on libc-ares2 (>= 1.7.0); however:
  Package libc-ares2 is not installed.
 wireshark-common depends on liblua5.1-0; however:
  Package liblua5.1-0 is not installed.
 wireshark-common depends on libsmi2ldbl; however:
  Package libsmi2ldbl is not installed.
dpkg: error processing wireshark-common (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tshark:
 tshark depends on wireshark-common (= 1.8.3); however:
  Package wireshark-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing tshark (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wireshark:
 wireshark depends on wireshark-common (= 1.8.3); however:
  Package wireshark-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wireshark (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wireshark-common
 tshark
 wireshark

Hopefully we know how to fix:

$ sudo aptitude -f install
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  tshark wireshark wireshark-common{b}
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 wireshark-common : Depends: libc-ares2 (>= 1.7.0) but it is not going to be installed.
                    Depends: liblua5.1-0 but it is not going to be installed.
                    Depends: libsmi2ldbl but it is not going to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1)     tshark
2)     wireshark
3)     wireshark-common



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
 The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Install the following packages:
1)     libc-ares2 [1.7.5-1 (now, precise)]
2)     liblua5.1-0 [5.1.4-12ubuntu1 (now, precise)]
3)     libsmi2ldbl [0.4.8+dfsg2-4build1 (now, precise)]



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y

# and finally:

 Current status: 0 broken [-1].