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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: billy_gates on 14 April 2003, 03:04

Title: New GAIM
Post by: billy_gates on 14 April 2003, 03:04: I used synaptic to update my GAIM, the new one is so great. Its unebelievable. Everyone go out and download it.
Title: New GAIM
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 14 April 2003, 03:16: This should be in the Applications forum
Title: New GAIM
Post by: Faust on 14 April 2003, 04:07: kawai!
Title: New GAIM
Post by: Lord C on 14 April 2003, 18:29: Yes it is VERY nice!

But the RPMs wouldnt work for me - said i didnt have GTK2 (which of course i do).

I downloaded the source and installed iut no problem.

PS: if you install GAIM using the source, as i did, and you still have previous GAIM, when typing Run > GAIM you will still get the old game.
Create a shortcut to '/usr/local/bin/gaim'
;D
Title: New GAIM
Post by: Calum on 14 April 2003, 19:38: how annoying that the rpm wouldn't work! i get annoyed at these "noarch" rpms that are actually red hat rpms and won't work on mandrake style systems. personally i just installed a slackpack of gaim and it worked beautifully.
Title: New GAIM
Post by: SAJChurchey on 14 April 2003, 20:07: Tarballs all the way :-D
Title: New GAIM
Post by: Lord C on 14 April 2003, 20:35: hehe, well said.
i love RPMs but i prefer to know where things are going and what they are doing.

[edit] What OS are you running Calum? [/edit]

[ April 14, 2003: Message edited by: BaDDaSS[Mandrake] ]
Title: New GAIM
Post by: SAJChurchey on 18 April 2003, 02:37: The new interface is absolutely beautiful. I was kinda jealous of the Windows port their for a while, but this really takes the cake. It also has a lot more features like the Idle Maker, etc. I can have some real fun w/ this software.
Title: New GAIM
Post by: Siplus on 20 April 2003, 02:28: how big is the download?

i think i'll have to update my desktop next time i boot it. it has a 1k/sec download speed, however. and that is annoying
Title: New GAIM
Post by: TheQuirk on 20 April 2003, 04:45: Too bad .60 was extremly buggy and in .61 my conversation window freezes randomly.

Sheesh--this even happens in CVS, and I've even talked to the developers about it.
Title: New GAIM
Post by: Kintaro on 21 April 2003, 21:45: I will try it l8r j00
Title: New GAIM
Post by: SAJChurchey on 25 April 2003, 21:15: Well 0.62 just came out Tues. I think they're going to be speedind development up. According to the site there is going to be a new release biweekly. 0.62 is a good bit of bug fixes, but there are going to be more features added in 0.63. I can't imagine what else they could add.

Any ideas?
Title: New GAIM
Post by: emh on 1 May 2003, 03:18: I can't get 0.62 to compile. It keeps complaining about not being able to find GTK, and I do have the GTK development libraries installed.
Title: New GAIM
Post by: TheQuirk on 1 May 2003, 07:18: quote:
Originally posted by emh:
I can't get 0.62 to compile. It keeps complaining about not being able to find GTK, and I do have the GTK development libraries installed.

Are they GTK2 libraries?
Title: New GAIM
Post by: emh on 1 May 2003, 07:42: Yes.

I should also mention that gaim 0.61 compiled without a problem.

[ April 30, 2003: Message edited by: emh ]
Title: New GAIM
Post by: slave on 1 May 2003, 08:48: what distro do you use, emh?
Title: New GAIM
Post by: emh on 2 May 2003, 08:45: Mandrake 9.0, using the 2.4.21 multimedia kernel.

The last thing I upgraded was Freetype. I upgraded to 2.1.4 via RPM. Would that possibly have anything to do with my GAIM not wanting to link to my GTK libraries?
Title: New GAIM
Post by: slave on 2 May 2003, 08:51: I dunno... I'd suggest using urpmi to update it if you can, it solves the deps.
Title: New GAIM
Post by: emh on 3 May 2003, 06:57: I used a source rpm to create rpms for Freetype 2.1.4, I issued the rpm --rebuild command to rebuild the rpms, so all dependencies were already resolved. That's not the issue.