Re: Issue with building wireshark from source

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>]

On 10/31/2011 08:59 PM, vijay wrote:
> I have installed all the dependent packages - gtk3.1 , glib, pango atk
> and all the required packages.
> Now when I run ./configure in wireshark build I get the following error:
>
> 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 have the latest version of GTK+ installed. Could some one please tell
> me what the issue is here?

In this case "the latest version of GTK+" is not really a good thing. 
GTK3 is special in that they ripped out backwards compatability for a 
lot of stuff, which means that applications (such as Wireshark) 
frequently need to be *ported* to GTK3.

So, for now, stick with the latest GTK v2 you can get.
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