Need help installing TRAFSHOW

[ryandasilva]

Hello all. I used to use trafshow on my pfsense 1.2.3 boxes all the time. Now i cant install it any more. If i run pkg_add -r trafshow it says:

Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/trafshow.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/trafshow.tbz' by URL

I am assuming this has something to do with FreeBSD no longer being on version 7.2 but i just need to know how to install it. Im trying to view realtime traffic. ive had some success with the RATE package but i prefer trafshow as i can set it to update every 1 second for almost realtime analysis of traffic.

Does anyone here know how to install trafshow nowadays?

Thanks,
Ryan

[stephenw10]

It's because latest packages are no longer available for 7.2. You need to switch to 7-stable.

You can specify the full path directly:

pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/trafshow.tbz

Or set a variable more permanently. See: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,32047.0.html

Of course some packages from 7-stable may not work correctly.

Steve

[ryandasilva]

thanks for your help. i get an error message saying it was already installed or a previous version was. i remember messing with it a while back and i think i downloaded some version of it or maybe the source code and tried to install it but failed when it could find a library. how do i uninstall it? if i try to run trafshow i get the error message: "/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libncurses.so.8" not found, required by "trafshow" "

thanks so much!

Ryan

[stephenw10]

Since I no longer have a 1.2.3 install I can't certain about this but in general….

You probably need to add a symlink called libncurses.so.8 and point it at what ever version of libcurses is part of pfSense 1.2.3.

Steve