Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] GTK Warnings 0.10.5a

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:56:00 -0700 (PDT)
Olivier Biot said:
> The reason for your issues is that you did not uninstall the previous
> version of Ethereal (I've seen similar issues on my PCs too). This is
> almost required now, as 0.10.5 uses more recent GTK/GLib versions,
> hence some conflicts might have occurred.

Is the problem here that the GTK+/GLib dll's changed their names, so that
the new ones didn't simply overwrite the old ones when 0.10.5 is
installed?

If so, the installer should perhaps remove older versions, rather than
requiring the user to un-install and re-install.