Today I will be posting on a complete setup of wireshark for leopard. We will be using the MacPorts package manager in order to stay at the latest version with ease. There are a couple other versions available but I have found this one to be the best solution available.

Note: Mac OS X Leopard has moved to the Xorg codebase so there are a couple tricks and tradeoffs that exist when running X11 applications.

Run the following command to have a fully working wireshark setup.

sudo port install wireshark +x11

There is another variant which is +quartz but currently the versions of cairo and gtk2 working with the quartz libraries are very experimental and do not work well as of yet.

UPDATE: It appears with the current version 2.0 of XQuartz that is shipped with Leopard is a bit broken and Wireshark will crash quite quickly after you start to capture. See bug 1953. The solution to this is to update XQuartz to 2.1.0.1 or greater. To do this download http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/X11-2.1.3.pkg and install it. This will update the shipped version.
Note: You need to have X11 already installed from the Apple Leopard DVD for this update to install.
Note: This is not an official Apple update for X11. We’re not really sure, when an official update comes out, how well it will install.

Introduction

The main purpose of this howto is to offer instructions on how to setup a development stack for Mac OS X Leopard. There will be no beefy server backend so the web hosting portion of this tutorial will stop at mongrel. I will be using the built in rails stack and just updating the necessary packages. Now lets get this solid foundation patched and development ready. Enjoy.

Environment

Leopard ships with Ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 36 with extra goodies that got merged in. The reason why Ruby was not the latest which is available today for download from Ruby-Lang is because it was released after the deadline. Do not fret the security vulnerabilities were patched. Since the version that ships with Leopard is “framework-ized” we will stick with that version and updating the Ruby on Rails installation around it.

Pre-Installed Gems

Below is a list of all the gems that come installed on a default Leopard install. The stack below is before anything has been done to a clean OS X install. We will use this as the base of our stack and build from here.

• actionmailer (1.3.3)
• actionpack (1.13.3)
• actionwebservice (1.2.3)
• activerecord (1.15.3)
• activesupport (1.4.2)
• acts_as_ferret (0.4.1)
• capistrano (2.0.0)
• cgimultiparteof_fix (2.2)
• daemons (1.0.7)
• dnssd (0.6.0)
• fastthread (1.0)
• fcgi (0.8.7)
• ferret (0.11.4)
• gem_plugin (0.2.2)
• highline (1.2.9)
• hpricot (0.6)
• libxml-ruby (0.3.8.4)
• mongrel (1.0.1)
• needle (1.3.0)
• net-sftp (1.1.0)
• net-ssh (1.1.2)
• rails (1.2.3)
• rake (0.7.3)
• RedCloth (3.0.4)
• ruby-openid (1.1.4)
• ruby-yadis (0.3.4)
• rubynode (0.1.3)
• sources (0.0.1)
• sqlite3-ruby (1.2.1)
• termios (0.9.4)

Updating Current Environment

First things first we need to update RubyGems is 0.9.5 which is fully supported by Leopard. To complete this step please run the following command in the terminal.

sudo gem update --system

Once this completes RubyGems will be fully patched and you will be ready to update the Ruby on Rails gems to their latest version.

Upgrading Installed Gems

Now that RubyGems is updated we are ready to update all the installed gems on the system.

sudo gem update

Once that has completed you will not have the latest version of stable rails as well as all the other fabulous gems that ship with Mac OS X.

Testing Your New and Updated Ruby on Rails Stack

cd ~/Sites
rails Test
cd Test
./script/server &

open http://localhost:3000

Adding Support For PostgreSQL Databases

In the next post on this topic I will be going over how to add support for PostgreSQL 8.2.5 as well as compiling PostgreSQL with DTrace support under Mac OS X.

Stay Tuned…