Trouble installing wireshark on Mac OSX 10.5

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 19:35, Don Wright wrote:

>>    I’ve tried installing Wireshark on my mac and am getting the  
>> following error messages.  Can I just delete gdk-pixbuf-csource, or  
>> is this just the first bump in the road.
>>
>> -- Don
>>
>> don$ sudo port install wireshark
>> Password:
>> --->  Fetching gtk2
>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for gtk2
>> --->  Extracting gtk2
>> --->  Applying patches to gtk2
>> --->  Configuring gtk2
>> --->  Building gtk2
>> --->  Staging gtk2 into destroot
>> --->  Installing gtk2 @2.16.1_2+x11
>> --->  Activating gtk2 @2.16.1_2+x11
>> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/ 
>> local/bin/gdk-pixbuf-csource already exists and does not belong to  
>> a registered port.  Unable to activate port gtk2.
>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gtk2
>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Where did /opt/local/bin/gdk-pixbuf-csource come from? Something  
installed it, but MacPorts didn't think it did.

One relatively common cause of this is if you install MacPorts,  
install some ports (in this case including gtk2), then somehow  
incompletely uninstall MacPorts, then install MacPorts again, so that  
the software MacPorts had installed is still there, but MacPorts is no  
longer aware of it. If that sounds possible, then you should uninstall  
MacPorts properly and reinstall it. Uninstall instructions are here:

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#uninstall