Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Issue with building wireshark from source

[Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:06:48PM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:

> In this case "the latest version of GTK+" is not really a good thing. 
> GTK3 is special in that they ripped out backwards compatability for a 
> lot of stuff, which means that applications (such as Wireshark) 
> frequently need to be *ported* to GTK3.

You can try the (still experimental) support for GTK3 in Wireshark by 
passing "--with-gtk3" to the configure script.