Gerald Combs wrote:
The /opt/sfw GTK+ packages are available from Sun:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/
Ah! Mystery solved. Thanks. :-)
At some point I'd like to update the Solaris packages to use GLib/GTK+
2, ADNS, PCRE, and Net-SNMP along with a few other improvements. Is
there a particular freeware package distribution that should be used for
this? Should we do like commercial packages (i.e. CiscoWorks) and dump
Ethereal and all of its support libraries into one huge /opt/Ethereal
directory?
I can see a big advantage to having an all-inclusive package: reasonably
frequently people ask me how to install Ethereal on their (basically
naked of add-on packages) Solaris systems but of course this involves
adding all the dependencies. If they're in a hurry I tend to suggest
they capture with 'snoop' and analyze later, on another machine, with
Ethereal.
However, I'd vote against doing away with the with-dependencies package
for those of us who already have all the dependencies installed (but
then again, I could just build my own).
And I'd vote for sunfreeware.com packages but that's just because that's
what I use.
While we're on the subject, why does everyone (including Sun) build
separate freeware packages for different versions of Solaris? Shouldn't
a package built for Solaris 8 (or 7 or 2.5.1) run just fine under 10?
(This isn't Linux, after all.)
Probably because it makes people feel better (thinking that there's last
chance of a weird incompatibility problems).
Jeff Morriss wrote:
Actually the error message says you need GTK installed in "/opt/sfw/";
I'm not sure where one gets a GTK package that installs in this location
but the official Solaris 8 packages from ethereal.com need that package.
(I've been building my own Solaris 8 packages for years because of
this--using the GTK packages from sunfreeware.com . FWIW, the official
Solaris 9 builds want GTK installed in "/usr/local/".)
I imagine it might work if you make a symbolic link from "/opt/sfw/" to
"/usr/local/" (never tried it).
Anders Broman (AL/EAB) wrote:
Hi,
I think the package you want is
gtk+-1.2.8-sol8-sparc-local.gz
or
gtk-2.2.4-sol8-sparc-local.gz
Brg
Anders
-----Original Message-----
From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Igor Krugliak
Sent: den 30 augusti 2005 14:55
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Installation problem on Solaris
Hello,
I've tried to install ethereal on Solaris, but pkgadd failed: ##
Executing checkinstall script.
/var/tmp/dstreAAAmLaiLO/ethereal/install/checkinstall: gtk-config: not
found
This package requires gtk+ version >= 1.2 installed in
/usr/sfw/bin.
Aborting installation.
But I have gtk-config installed: /usr/local/bin
Please advice
Igor Krugliak