Hi Jeff,
THANKS so much for your guidance- I have never done something like this before and it is pretty cool that is worked.
I was looking in the Source directory for 1.8.1 and did not see a SPEC file.
For future reference, I would like to know how to determine the requirements as the Config.Log file seemed too cryptic for me but I have had experience with SPEC files. Could you enlighten me?
Thanks again for your help!
-John
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Jeff Morriss
<jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Powell wrote:
*Jeff,* I tried to install a later version of wireshark 1.4 on my 6.3 box but ran into issues with GTK+ and others
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... 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.
configure: error: GTK+ 2.4 or later isn't available, so Wireshark can't be compiled
* I am new at the whole linux game, would it be possible for you to
send me details on how the later version of Wireshark got
installed on your 6.1 CentOS machine?
* I am assuming it was installed from source and not from a
repository, but if it was from a repository could you let me know
which one?
You'd have to check the config.log to find out the exact reason, but CentOS 6 comes with GTK 2.18.9 so it should be fine. Chances are you're missing the -devel package: "yum install gtk2-devel" to fix that.
(In fact I've also built 1.8.1 on CentOS 6; you might want to consider using this latest/great version too.)
There may be other -devel packages you need too. The Fedora Core 17 Wireshark spec file (which builds 1.6.6) requires all of these packages to build; you don't need all of them (depending on what options you want), but it's a starting point (I added some comments):
BuildRequires: libpcap-devel >= 0.9
BuildRequires: libsmi-devel # only needed for SNMP
BuildRequires: zlib-devel, bzip2-devel
BuildRequires: openssl-devel # Not used by Wireshark any more
BuildRequires: glib2-devel, gtk2-devel
BuildRequires: elfutils-devel, krb5-devel # latter is optional
BuildRequires: python, pcre-devel, libselinux # pcre-devel is optional, don't think you really need libselinux
BuildRequires: gnutls-devel # only needed if you want to decrypt things
BuildRequires: flex, bison, python, python-devel # python-devel only needed if you want Python scripting support (which doesn't work very well)
BuildRequires: GeoIP-devel # only if you want GeoIP
BuildRequires: libcap-devel # only if you want to use Linux Capabilities
BuildRequires: adns-devel # optional
BuildRequires: c-ares-devel # optional
BuildRequires: portaudio-devel # optional
BuildRequires: lua-devel #optional
