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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] gentoo section addition to user guide

From: Sebastien Tandel <sebastien@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:13:50 +0100
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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