Ive installed Ethereal from Fink on Mac OS X; why is it very slow to start up?
When an application is installed on OS X, prior to 10.4, it is usually “prebound” to speed up launching the application. (That’s what the “Optimizing” phase of installation is.) Fink normally performs prebinding automatically when you install a package. However, in some rare cases, for whatever reason the prebinding caches get corrupt, and then not only does prebinding fail, but startup actually becomes much slower, because the system tries in vain to perform prebinding “on the fly” as you launch the application. This fails, causing sometimes huge delays. To fix the prebinding caches, run the command sudo /sw/var/lib/fink/prebound/update-package-prebinding.
