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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 0.10.2 Needing pod2man

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:05:48 -0800
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:25:28PM -0700, Hunsaker Nicholas-R62093 wrote:
> Just realized I don't have this pod2man.  Why is required in this
> version?

For the same reason it's required in other versions - we supply Ethereal
documentation in the form of Perl Plain Old Documentation ("pod") files,
and generate the man pages from that.

pod2man *should*, I think, be present if Perl is present; do you have
Perl installed on your machine?