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I've installed Wireshark(.org) using Homebrew.

brew install wireshark

at the end the script says

==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/wireshark/1.2.7 --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-wireshark
==> make
==> make install
==> Caveats
We don't build the X11 enabled GUI by default
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/wireshark/1.2.7: 167 files, 50M, built in 5.4 minutes

I'm not able to find the 'wireshark' GUI.
Any idea of how to build it?

Thanks

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$ brew options wireshark

Shows you options for wireshark. --with-x is listed, so:

$ brew install wireshark --with-x

And that should work.

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Well, the system did warn you that it wouldn't install the X11 GUI. So maybe there is an option in the configuration phase that enables it? You'd need a whole extra set of stuff to run X11.

At http://www.wireshark.org/download.html there is a binary downstaller you could use...

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Thanks for your response. I've X11, I just don't understand what I'm missing. I should build wireshark gui in some way I suppose... no mention of how to do it with homebrew. this is the script 'github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/…; sorry I'm newbie – miku8 May 29 '10 at 14:58
Do it without the --disable-wireshark in the script. So edit the script... Maybe you'll get a problem with dependencies as well, so you could remove the --disable-dependency-tracking as well, but then of course you could get errors as well.... You do know that at the wireshark site there is a complete binary build of wireshark, installer and all ? That's a lot easier. – Henno May 29 '10 at 17:53
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You appear to have disabled the building of the GUI with the --disable-wireshark option to the configure script .

You need to clean up from the previous build, run configure without the --disable-wireshark and then rebuild.

Unfortunately I can't help you do this on your OS as I have no knowledge of it.

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