# trying to build a more-recent tshark only for RHEL6 than what comes stock (1.8.10 as of this writing);
# grabbed 2.6.6 source
#
# N.B.: Make sure you have PLENTY of disk space! my build died at least once due to space constraints!
#
# make sure you have software collections enabled, and install python27 from extras

# directory "build" is a sibling of wireshark-2.6.6 (sources)
[grimm@buildbox build]$ scl enable python27 bash
[grimm@buildbox build]$ cmake -DBUILD_wireshark=OFF -DBUILD_editcap=OFF -DBUILD_capinfos=OFF -DBUILD_captype=OFF -DBUILD_mergecap=OFF -DBUILD_reordercap=OFF -DBUILD_text2pcap=OFF -DBUILD_dftest=OFF -DBUILD_randpkt=OFF -DBUILD_dumpcap=OFF -DBUILD_rawshark=OFF -DENABLE_PCAP=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ../wireshark-2.6.6
...
[grimm@buildbox build]$ make
...


# hooray!