Troubleshooting during the install on unix – Lucent Technologies Ethereal User Manual
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2.6. Troubleshooting during the install on
Unix
A number of errors can occur during the installation process. Some hints on solving these are
provided here.
If the configure stage fails, you will need to find out why. You can check the file
config.log
in
the source directory to find out what failed. The last few lines of this file should help in determining
the problem.
The standard problems are that you do not have GTK+ on your system, or you do not have a recent
enough version of GTK+. The configure will also fail if you do not have libpcap (at least the re-
quired include files) on your system.
Another common problem is for the final compile and link stage to terminate with a complaint of:
Output too long. This is likely to be caused by an antiquated sed (such as the one shipped with Sol-
aris). Since sed is used by the libtool script to construct the final link command, this leads to mys-
terious problems. This can be resolved by downloading a recent version of sed from
If you cannot determine what the problems are, send mail to the ethereal-dev mailing list explain-
ing your problem, and including the output from
config.log
and anything else you think is rel-
evant, like a trace of the make stage.
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