Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Need your help.

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From: Lorand JAKAB <jlori@xxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:33:46 +0200
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 09:09, Pramuk Rungrojaree wrote:
> Hello ethereal staffs,
>     I just downloaded your software for solaris package. First, I
> installed glib-2.2.3-sol8-sparc-local and gtk-2.2.4-sol8-sparc-local.
> Both were installed in "usr/local" automaticly. Then I tried to
> installed ethereal-0.10.2-solaris2.8-sparc-local but there is
> an error about finding installed gtk+.
>     Do you know how let ethereal check the gtk+ in "usr/local" or how
> to change the directory while installing gtk+ ?
> Thank you,
> Pramuk.
>                 # pkgadd -d etherea*
>                  
>                 The following packages are available:
>                   1  ethereal     ethereal 0.10.2
>                                   (sparc) 0.10.2
>                  
>                 Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to
>                 process
>                 all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: 
>                  
>                 Processing package instance <ethereal> from
>                 </usr/local/ethereal-0.10.2-solaris2.8-sparc-local>
>                  
>                 ethereal 0.10.2
>                 (sparc) 0.10.2
>                 Ethereal Development Team
>                 ## Executing checkinstall script.
>                 /var/tmp/dstreAAAfnaqpb/ethereal/install/checkinstall:
>                 gtk-config: not found
>                  
>                  
>                  
>                         This package requires gtk+ version >= 1.2
>                 installed in /opt/sfw/bin.
>                         Aborting installation.
>                  

It seems that the ethereal package you got expects gtk+ to be installed
to the /opt tree. Try to install gtk-2.2.4-sol8-sparc-opt, see if it
works.