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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem with configure script in 0.9.1?

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From: c0c0 <c0c0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 00:02:20 +0200
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:52:03 -0800 (PST)
Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I downloaded the 0.9.1 version and tried to install it on my Slackware
> > 8.0 system. My configure options is like this:
> > 
> > ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome  --exec-prefix=/opt/gnome 
> > 
> > it configures and when i make and make install
> > 
> > root@darkstar:~# which ethereal
> > /usr/bin/ethereal
> 
> What does
> 
> 	ls -l /opt/gnome/bin/ethereal
> 
> print?

root@darkstar:~# ls -l /opt/gnome/bin/ethereal
/bin/ls: /opt/gnome/bin/ethereal: No such file or directory

> 
> If it shows that there's an "/opt/gnome/bin/ethereal" file, the problem
> may just be that your command search path setting either doesn't search

it is in the search path.

> "/opt/gnome/bin" or searches it after it searches "/usr/bin".

may be this could be the problem, but then why it goes to the /usr/bin in
the first place?

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