Troubling Using Gaim after Apt-Get

[jdvilla]

I'm running RH 8 and have started using apt-get (for redhat) to upgrade some of my packages. I did an upgrade to KDE 3.1 and since then I cannot use Gaim. Well, if I do apt-get install gaim it installs an older version of Gaim (0.59). So I ended up installing v. 0.66 and had to manually copy over libpspell.so.4 and some other lib over from an older system just to get gaim to start.

Well, now when I start it, I it closes by itself after a few seconds and I get this error

gaim: relocation error: gaim: undefined symbol: gdk_draw_pixbuf


any ideas?

[Hayl]

install the libraries it requires properly (either via apt-get or source-code) instead of copying them over, then compile the version of gaim you want from source-code.

[jdvilla]

thanks for the reply...

I'm a little confused and frustrated now...

I try to do an apt-get for for gtk and get the following msg

Package gtk has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
However the following packages replace it:
gtk+


then I try apt-get install glib and get

glib is already the newest version.

but yet when I try to configure gaim I get a message about

GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib

however, if I do a locate glib

I get

/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.0.6
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0

any ideas?

This is kinda frustrating....I've been trying to reinstall gaim for about a week now.

[o0zi]

It seems you need to do an apt-get install gtk+, as was suggested by apt-get's error message.

Did you properly uninstall the older version of Gaim before you installed the newer one?

[jdvilla]

I tried apt-get install gtk+ as well as forcing it but either way it failes on a dependency-> libpspell.so.4

I currently have libpspell.so.15, so I'm back to where I started.

Originally, I would just do rpm installations of gtkspell and gaim .66, but since I upgraded I get the libpspell.so.4 issue, which has already been posted here.

This is why I just went ahead and copied over lipspell.so.4 over to my machine...

So in summary, I've tried a few installation methods, but my root problem is this libpspell.so.4

++shrug++

[bs_texas]

I think I read somewhere, although I couldn't find it just now, that you should delete a previous version of gaim before installing the next version.

I recommend that you completely remove gaim, and for me that has always been 'rpm -e gaim', and then start over.

good luck...

Oh, as I see o0zi has asked.

[jdvilla]

I did...

I even reformatted my machine and reinstalled without adding gaim

What I have now is a forced version of Gaim .66

I did

rpm -ivh --nodeps gtkspell.x.x.x. gaim.0.66..x.x.x.x.

and I can start it and use it, but not like I used to. I assume it's because I I forced the install.


*Note: I didn't reformat just for Gaim, there was another purpose.

[bs_texas]

rpm -ivh --nodeps gtkspell.x.x.x. gaim.0.66..x.x.x.x.

Uh... Have you tried to simply install gtkspell first?
And then install gaim?
Separately?

Just a thought... Maybe that --nodeps thing is hosing your installation. I've never used that with gaim.

regards...

[jdvilla]

Uh... Have you tried to simply install gtkspell first?

Yes.

gtkspell needs libpspell.so.4 so it won't install without it. which is why I forced the installation after some time, which would be --nodeps for no dependencies... without it, it won't go anywhere...

then I tried rpm -ivh gaim.x.x.x.x and same issue with this libpspell.so.4, so again, I use --nodeps to skip the dependencies.

it's like saying f@#$ it and install!!!!

Well, like I said, it's installedm just shaky...