Re: [Ethereal-users] Installation problem on Solaris

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

It looks like you're looking at the contents of the GTK+ package. 
Instead of putting the _package_ in /usr/local you should:

- put it somewhere else convenient
- install the package using 'pkgadd'

Regards,
-Jeff

Igor Krugliak wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I FTPed GTK+ software to solaris machine, after unzip I got directory
> /usr/local/gtk
> And under that: install  pkginfo  pkgmap   root
>
> What is my next step to install GTK+ for Ethereal??
>
> Thank you
> Igor Krugliak 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Combs
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:56 AM
> To: Ethereal user support
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Installation problem on Solaris
>
>
> The /opt/sfw GTK+ packages are available from Sun:
>
>     http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/
>
> Aside from Sun you can get Solaris packages from the following locations
> (and many others):
>
>   http://www.sunfreeware.com/
>   http://www.blastwave.com/
>   http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/
>   http://www.openpkg.org/
>
> At some point I'd like to update the Solaris packages to use GLib/GTK+
> 2, ADNS, PCRE, and Net-SNMP along with a few other improvements.  Is
> there a particular freeware package distribution that should be used for
> this?  Should we do like commercial packages (i.e. CiscoWorks) and dump
> Ethereal and all of its support libraries into one huge /opt/Ethereal
> directory?
>
> While we're on the subject, why does everyone (including Sun) build
> separate freeware packages for different versions of Solaris?  Shouldn't
> a package built for Solaris 8 (or 7 or 2.5.1) run just fine under 10?
> (This isn't Linux, after all.)
>
>
> Jeff Morriss wrote:
>
> > Actually the error message says you need GTK installed in "/opt/sfw/";
> > I'm not sure where one gets a GTK package that installs in this 
> > location but the official Solaris 8 packages from ethereal.com need 
> > that package.  (I've been building my own Solaris 8 packages for years
>
>
> > because of this--using the GTK packages from sunfreeware.com .  FWIW, 
> > the official Solaris 9 builds want GTK installed in "/usr/local/".)
> >
> > I imagine it might work if you make a symbolic link from "/opt/sfw/"
> > to "/usr/local/" (never tried it).
> >
> > Anders Broman (AL/EAB) wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I think the package you want is
> > > gtk+-1.2.8-sol8-sparc-local.gz
> > > or
> > > gtk-2.2.4-sol8-sparc-local.gz
> > >
> > > Brg
> > > Anders
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Igor
> > > Krugliak
> > > Sent: den 30 augusti 2005 14:55
> > > To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [Ethereal-users] Installation problem on Solaris
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've tried to install ethereal on Solaris, but pkgadd failed: ##
> > > Executing checkinstall script.
> > > /var/tmp/dstreAAAmLaiLO/ethereal/install/checkinstall: gtk-config: 
> > > not found
> > >        This package requires gtk+ version >= 1.2 installed in 
> > > /usr/sfw/bin.
> > >        Aborting installation.
> > >
> > > But I have gtk-config installed: /usr/local/bin
> > >
> > > Please advice
> > > Igor Krugliak
> >
> >
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