Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal installation on Mac OS X--will not execute

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:45:13 -0700
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:08:43PM -0400, Laryn Bakker wrote:
> I just download Fink at fink.sourceforge.net and then used dselect to 
> download and install ethereal--except it won't run when I try to 
> execute it from the /sw/bin/ directory, but it gives me this error:
> 
> >[srv13:/sw/bin] root# ethereal dyld: ethereal can't open library: 
> >/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.6.dylib  (No such file or directory, errno = 
> >2)

You *do* have X11 installed, right?  Ethereal doesn't use a toolkit that
directly uses Quartz or Aqua, it uses a toolkit for which there's a
"native" Mac OS X version under development, but that "native" version
isn't ready yet, so Ethereal currently requires X11.