[csw-users] Package dependencies for ethereal missing

Bob Doolittle Robert.Doolittle at Sun.COM
Mon Feb 6 20:22:58 CET 2006


Never mind - updating libpango did the trick.
I still wonder why pkg-get didn't handle the
dependencies properly for me, however.

-Bob

Bob Doolittle wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I seem to be encountering no end of missing
> package dependencies when trying to run
> ethereal.
>
> First it was missing the latest libcrypto.so from
> the openssl package.  I was able to figure that
> out because I had an older version installed
> already so could identify the package
> needing updating via /var/sadm/install/contents.
>
> But now I am missing libpangocairo-1.0.so.0,
> and I don't have this anywhere on my system,
> so don't know what package to install.  Also,
> using the search page on blastwave
> (http://www.blastwave.org/search.php)
> doesn't show anything.
>
> Isn't pkg-get supposed to handle all dependencies
> automatically?  Is the package dependency info
> for ethereal broken somehow?  I tried to clean
> everything up by doing pkgrm CSWethereal,
> and then pkg-get -i ethereal, but am still missing
> these dependencies...
>
> Finally - there's a new version of ethereal available
> (0.10.14).  The version on blastwave is 0.10.13.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>   Bob
>
>




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