On Oct 22, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Tracy Hockenhull <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm fairly new to Linux, and new to Wireshark, and I'm having problems with 
> the ./configure part of the process to install Wireshark.

On Ubuntu, the standard process to install a program is "fire up Synaptics 
Package Manager, search for it, and install the package it finds".

If you want a version newer than the version in the Ubuntu repository - which 
you might, because my Ubuntu 12.04 (virtual) machine claims that the current 
version in the package repository is 1.6, which is, err, umm, *three major 
versions out of date* - then, if there isn't a convenient PPA with something 
less out-of-date, you would need to...

> The error I'm getting is this:
> 
> checking for GTK+ - version >= 3.0.0... no
> *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for 
> the
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly 
> installed.
> configure: error: GTK+ 3 is not available
> 
> To fix this, I tried sudo apt-get install gtk+3.0,

...install the *development* package for GTK+, which is called libgtk-3-dev, if 
Synaptics on my Ubuntu virtual machine is to be believed.

Most Linux distributions have separate "user" and "developer" packages for 
various libraries; the "user" package is sufficient to allow binary packages 
*using* the library to work, but not sufficient to allow you to *compile* 
programs using the library - you need the "developer" package to do that.
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