Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] compling the ethereal in FC4 linux gives following error

[Deepesh singh <motosingh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, I tried with rpms rather than compiling and it worked.

Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Deepesh singh wrote:
> > I am tring to compile ethereal in FC4 it gives following errors. Any 
> > suggestions.
>
>  ...
>
> > checking if profile builds must be generated... no
> > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> > checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no
> > *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
> > *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
> > *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
> > checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/bin/pkg-config
> > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
> > *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
> > *** The test program failed
>  to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
> > *** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
> > configure: error: GLib2 distribution not found.
>
> Do you have *developer* packages for GLib (GLib, not glibc) and GTK+ 
> installed?
>
> If not, you need to install them, as Ethereal uses GTK+ as its GUI 
> toolkit and GLib for various utility functions (GTK+ also uses GLib), 
> and, in order to compile a program using GLib or GTK+, you need the 
> developer packages for them installed.  Those packages should come with 
> FC4, although I don't know what name they'd have.
>
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