Okay, one more time and I'm gone for the night. Okay, I jumped the gun, maybe. Since I did an upgrade, perhaps I have got bogus urpmi info in there, and not necassarily the fresh install. DOH!
Secondly, ethereal 0.9.602mdk works just fine! Woohoo! No biggy, but it does appear that the newer version didn't get created properly.
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