Wireshark fails to complete install at gtk2

[Kok-Yong Tan]

On Dec 1, 2007, at 15:25, Jesse Ohlsson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Trying to get wireshark installed, and it looked good until the  
> install script got to the gtk2 installation.
>
> (G5 powerpc, OS X 10.5.1, MacPorts 1.520)
>
> Here's the install output:

<snip>

> --->  Fetching gtk2
> Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned:
> You must install gtk2 with either the +quartz or +x11 variant  
> specified.
>
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gtk2 libpcap  
> openssl
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
>
> Does anyone know what to do next?


Try this in order (I bumped into this same issue and did the following):

sudo port -Rv install gtk2 +x11
sudo port -Rv install libpcap
sudo port -Rv install openssl
sudo port -Rv install wireshark

I read in a discussion thread dated in March 2007 while Googling for  
the search terms "gtk2 quartz" that the quartz variant was unusable  
at that time.  So, since Wireshark has an X11 front-end, I figured I  
might as well go with the x11 variant of gtk2...  Seems to work for  
me (I now have a seemingly functional Wireshark) although I'm still  
on Tiger (10.4.11).  YMMV.
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