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Installing ettercap

Hi all,

I'm tring to install ettercap on a RedHat 9.0 machine.  ettercap need many updated versions of the library, e.g

gtk+-2.4.13
pango-1.4.1
atk-1.6.1
glib-2.4.7

However, my GNOME and many many applications actually rely on some of the older libraries.  My question is how is the best way to do this?

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Hi,

   Those updated version of libraries are required only by the gtk+ GUI for ettercap.
You can choose not to install gtk+ GUI when you setup ettercap.

   The following URL say those library is optional:
http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/

   It is big impact to update the glib. If you have critical applicationa on that RedHat 9 box which rely on
the old(compatible) libraries, then it's better not update them (version 2.4.x and 2.3.x have a lot of compatibility
issue).

   My suggestion is either don't install gtk+ GUI or install ettercap on a Fedora Core 2 box.

Regards,

Wesly
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Those libraries seems optional as mention on the website..., however the problem is "./configure" for ettercap stops after complaining gtk+

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