I just received the confirmation from the debian package maintainer that
xorg packages had been renamed/reworked and now the dependencies for
gtk2-dev should be correct ...
Regards,
Sebastien Tandel
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.
>
>
> Steve
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