Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:44:01AM +0100, Sebastien Tandel wrote:
>
>
>> May you add in the Debian/Ubuntu section (at least for these
>> distributions, I don't know for others) that if they want compile
>> wireshark with gtk+2, they have to install libxext6-dev, libxi-dev,
>> libxrandr-dev as they probably won't be. I think it is "only" a
>> problem of dependencies with the package gtk+2-dev (which could be
>> resolved one day) but, believe me, it is not really easy to pinpoint
>> the final problem when ./configure tells you don't have gtk+2 on your
>> machine! ;)
>>
>
> Is there any chance the maintainers of the gtk+2-dev package could fix
> this problem? Have you tried contacting them? If not, would you mind
> writing up a simple section and I'll format it for the user's guide and
> place it in there as I've never even used Debian or Ubuntu.
>
>
The 2.6.4-3.1 does not include these dependencies but the 2.8.20-3 does.
I didn't look for 2.10.
It's the same maintainer who did both packages. I don't know the reason
why it lacks these dependencies in the 2.6.4 as I did not ask to the
maintainers. I will try to get information from the gtk2 maintainers
... maybe there is a good reason behind this :-/
If there is no chance of correction, I'll write a little section to
explain what to do in this case.
Sebastien Tandel