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

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:14:58 -0800
Thanks for following up on this!  So no changes are needed in our 
documentation for this issue?

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:13:50AM +0100, Sebastien Tandel wrote:

> 
> 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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