Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] installation problems..

[Dan Ginsberg <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a similar problem on a redhat 5.2 machine that I solved by
installing teh gtk-devel rpm.

dan

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Arni Raghu wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to install ethereal and had the following problem::
> 
> checking for gtk-config... /usr/local/bin/
> checking for GTK - version >= 1.0.0... ./configure: /usr/local/bin/: is
> a directory
> ./configure: /usr/local/bin/: is a directory
> ./configure: /usr/local/bin/: is a directory
> ./configure: /usr/local/bin/: is a directory
> ./configure: /usr/local/bin/: is a directory
> 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 was incorrectly
> installed
> *** or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the latter
> case, you
> *** may want to edit the gtk-config script: /usr/local/bin/
> configure: error: GTK+ distribution not found.
> 
> I do not know why this is happening..this is what I have in
> /etc/ld.so.conf
> 
> /usr/lib
> /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /usr/local/lib
> 
> I also do a ldconfig after that..
> 
> I also set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be /usr/local/lib
> 
> I do not see why I am unable to get this to get configured..
> 
> any help is appreciated..
> 
> thx,
> Arni
>