HOWTO: Gaim 2.0 CVS - .deb inside

[sapo]

Yo fellows.. i m very happy today.. i ve been waiting for the new release of gaim for a long time, tough it isnt released yet, i just compiled the cvs version, and its great, so as i m a good guy and now i m in a good mood i m writing this quick guide to help you install gaim 2.0 from cvs, or if your lazy just got my .deb.

Screenshot:
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/4939/gaim204fq.th.jpg (http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gaim204fq.jpg)

First of all, remove your gaim 1.5:

sudo apt-get remove gaim

Dont mind about the ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, or kubuntu-desktop, they are just meta packages.

if you want to use MSN, do this:

sudo apt-get install libgnutls11-dev

I dont know ALL the dependencies, so if you miss something, post here so we can find out what is missing, i had everything except the libgnutls above.

If you are lazy, just grab the deb:

http://xgn.com.br/fabio/gaim_2.0.0cvs2-1_i386.deb

if you want to compile yourself, here we go:

ps: Ripped from: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Step 1. Check out the source

Run the following commands in a directory that you have write access to (such as your home directory):

cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gaim' login
(Just hit enter for the password)
cvs -z3 -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gaim' checkout gaim

You should see it listing all the source files.

Step 2. Build again

Once you've checked gaim out of CVS, run the follwing commands:

cd gaim
sh autogen.sh
./configure --enable-gnutls=yes

If you see any errors here, you haven't installed everything you need. autogen.sh will also run ./configure for you once it's created, if it's created successfully. If you see any errors related to GLib or GTK, you haven't installed the devel packages.

Now, type:


make
sudo make install

Tip: if you want to create a deb and install it instead of the make install, dont type sudo make install, instead type this:

sudo apt-get install checkinstall

The type:

sudo checkinstall

it you ask you to fill some information, fill them out, and it will install the deb.

Now some tips by bored2k:

If you want to enable sounds in gaim, do this:

sudo apt-get install esound-clients

Now in the sound preferences of you gaim, chose metod: command, and fill the command field with: esdplay %s

Sugestions by foxy123:

If you want sound support, you need libao:

sudo apt-get install libao-dev

If you need spellchecking support, you need libgtkspell:

sudo apt-get install libgtkspell-dev

Enjoy :)

[Turtle.net]

Don't you need to do ./autogen.sh before ./configure ?

[sal]

dose this version include the gaim-vv to do audio chats with msn,yahoo,googletalk?

[lizardking]

some screen or list of new features?

[foxy123]

libgnutls10-dev wants to remove a lot of KDE dev packages which are used to build amarok from svn :(

[foxy123]

OK, several suggestions:

1.
if you want to use MSN, do this:
Code:
sudo apt-get install libgnutls10-dev

Ubuntu official package is libgnutls11, you do not need 10. So do
sudo apt-get install libgnutls11-dev
2. If you want sound support, you need libao:
sudo apt-get install libao-dev
3. If you need spellchecking support, you need libgtkspell:
sudo apt-get install libgtkspell-dev

[sapo]

Thanx guys, i ll add those to the howto :)

I dont know if you need to type autogen.sh first before the ./configure, do you need it?

[SirKillalot]

Gaim 2.0 is great! waiting for the official release..

[doclivingston]

I dont know if you need to type autogen.sh first before the ./configure, do you need it?

You should always (re-)run autogen.sh when you first get or later update something from cvs (or equivalent). Not doing that can cause problems when compiling.

[foxy123]

Thanx guys, i ll add those to the howto :)

I dont know if you need to type autogen.sh first before the ./configure, do you need it?
yes, you need. also you do not need ./configure, just put all options after ./autogen.sh like:

./autogen.sh --enable-gnutls=yes

[raublekick]

can you provide some uninstall instructions incase something should be not working?

gaim is crashing on me a lot right now though, so i'm definitely gonna give this a shot

[sapo]

can you provide some uninstall instructions incase something should be not working?

gaim is crashing on me a lot right now though, so i'm definitely gonna give this a shot
unistall gaim 2.0 after installed you mean?

if you installed the deb just use

sudo dpkg -r gaim

if you installed using make install, just enter the gaim folder that the cvs creater and type

sudo make uninstall

[christooss]

Why gaim has to be uninstalled?

[arpunk]

Why gaim has to be uninstalled?
To avoid errors with already installed files mostly, since gaim 2 and gaim will install in the same locations, you can just compile gaim 2 and leave it on ~/gaim2/ and run it from there, that will avoid installation and you can test it without problems.

[christooss]

Can someone else provide package which will install gaim2 beacause now when I run apt-get upgrade gaim gets rewriten with 1.1.5

I used deb provided by sapo

[christooss]

And MSN with sapo's deb doesnt work

I get support for ssl missing error

[akurashy]

Well I was planning to do this HOWTO but I guess sapo got faster than me xD, anyway I can provide this deb package I did 2 days ago around http://davidgonz.com/gaim-2.0.0_2.0.0-1_i386.deb

It supose to have MSN support, (because I can use msn)

[sapo]

And MSN with sapo's deb doesnt work

I get support for ssl missing error
You need to install the libgnutls11-dev to use MSN, try installing it, if it still doest work, try install the libgnutls10-dev.

good luck

[bored2k]

Though sapo's deb works ok, if I'm using aim and I try to change my status/displayed info, it disconnects and reconnects.. with the old status. It happened so much when i tried i even got a "disabled account for 10mins".

[welsh_spud]

Ignore post...

[limit223]

This how-to I was lazzy.. just installed sap's .deb and I enjoy it . Thank you :)
I'm wondering if there is way to be included in the package that plugin guifications and some theme as well..

[raublekick]

for some reason when i installed this i got two awat message things at the bottom of my buddy list instead of one. one of them had my screen name and the other didn't but they both affected my status.

all in all i really don't like the new "all in one" functionality too much. and isn't gaim 2.0 supposed to have uPnP/NAT translation? i still can't send and recieve files :(

[christooss]

Akurashy thanks for the deb. It works fine now. And no problems with upgrade

Thanks sapo for this owto. I love new GAIM. Can any one tell me what have changed. Is there a list of changes?

Bye

[akurashy]

Akurashy thanks for the deb. It works fine now. And no problems with upgrade

Thanks sapo for this owto. I love new GAIM. Can any one tell me what have changed. Is there a list of changes?

Bye

No probs!

[gold4tune]

Thx, everything worked fine for me. Just want to try it now. :razz:

[Jormundgand]

When I tried to install the DEB provided by sapo it seemed to install correctly, no bugs reported, but when I actually ran up Gaim I was greeted by a window appearing momentarily and them closing abruptly. No data was lost and I was able to revert with no loss of functionality. Could anyone suggest a course of action to provide more information on the nature of this crash?

[akurashy]

When I tried to install the DEB provided by sapo it seemed to install correctly, no bugs reported, but when I actually ran up Gaim I was greeted by a window appearing momentarily and them closing abruptly. No data was lost and I was able to revert with no loss of functionality. Could anyone suggest a course of action to provide more information on the nature of this crash?
Have you tried opening it again?

[Jormundgand]

Yep, tried opening it multiple times to the same response. Opens a window, opens a second window and then abruptly dies. I'd even have been glad for a Windows-style "this application has crashed" box just to let me know I'm still here!

[curtis]

Works fine here.
I tried the deb attached and compiling it my self, both worked :)

[Jormundgand]

Odd. I installed again and it worked. Switching to the correct libgnutls corrects the SSL error.

Now how do I stop the upgrade program "upgrading" to the older version?

[keybreckaba]

to stop the update thing you can open synaptic and highlight the package and from the package menu pick lock version.

[christooss]

Jormundgand: Just use akurashys deb file

I had both problems fixed with one deb

Bye

My friend is asking if amd94 deb could be build. I there is any good soul out there please build one :)

[Turtle.net]

I followed step by step your howto but :(
I have the following problem when I do $make
(...)
../libtool: line 1654: cd: NONE: No such file or directory
libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `NONE'
make[3]: *** [gaim] Erreur 1
(...)


Do you have any idea ???
:confused:

[Chrissss]

Works like a charm. Thanks for the hint!

Finally no annoying login window!
Saves last status as startup status!
etc...

Looking forward for the final version :)

[MighMoS]

Jormundgand: Just use akurashys deb file

I had both problems fixed with one deb

Bye

My friend is asking if amd94 deb could be build. I there is any good soul out there please build one :)
If you mean amd64 then I'm working on one that doesn't crash :-\

[foxy123]

I followed step by step your howto but :(
I have the following problem when I do $make
(...)
../libtool: line 1654: cd: NONE: No such file or directory
libtool: link: cannot determine absolute directory name of `NONE'
make[3]: *** [gaim] Erreur 1
(...)


Do you have any idea ???
:confused:
you have libtool installed, haven't you?

[rwabel]

thanks for the deb files. I'm on dapper and for me akurashy's deb file works fine. For the other I also get the SSL problem. Probably it would work when I install libgnutls-dev, but it would remove some other -dev files from the system at the moment.

[MBro]

Is anyone else not a fan of the new interface? If you're connected on many accounts those buttons on the bottom get annoying. Also if you are scrolling down your buddy list and you accidently go over one of the status buttons it'll switch your status. Hmm, not liking this so far.

[Turtle.net]

you have libtool installed, haven't you?
Yes I have $ sudo aptitude search libtool
iB libtool - Generic library support script
p libtool-doc - Generic library support script
p libtool1.4 - Generic library support script (obsolete
p libtool1.4-doc - Generic library support script (obsolete
That's why I do not understand why the "make" failed...

[bored2k]

Yes I have $ sudo aptitude search libtool
iB libtool - Generic library support script
p libtool-doc - Generic library support script
p libtool1.4 - Generic library support script (obsolete
p libtool1.4-doc - Generic library support script (obsolete
That's why I do not understand why the "make" failed...
What about the -dev libtool?

[foxy123]

What about the -dev libtool?
there is no dev for libtools...
what version of automake do you use?

[sapo]

I ve updated the .deb, compiled with aspell, libao and gnutls11, hope it works now.

Give me a feedback if you install it please :)

[vtechstu]

So, as it seems the people mentioning this so far have been ignored, is there anyway to remove the two gigantic buttons for away status on the bottum of the screen.

Thanks

If there is no way, How do I remove 2.0? I have tried apt-get'ting gaim(1.5) but it installs and when i click the icon 2.0 still loads, so nothing seems to be overwritten. Thanks.

[christooss]

sudo dpkg -r gaim should do the work

[sapo]

So, as it seems the people mentioning this so far have been ignored, is there anyway to remove the two gigantic buttons for away status on the bottum of the screen.

Thanks

If there is no way, How do I remove 2.0? I have tried apt-get'ting gaim(1.5) but it installs and when i click the icon 2.0 still loads, so nothing seems to be overwritten. Thanks.
I dont know how to remove that gigantic button :(

And to remove it, if you installed my deb, just type:

sudo dpkg -r gaim

if you compile and used make install, just enter the gaim directory (the source that you downloaed using cvs) and type:

sudo make uninstall

[vtechstu]

Thank you for the replies.

I'm not sure whose deb I used, one of the ones in this thread( not the first post, that does not work).

But in any case, using sudo dpkg -r gaim gives the following error/warning.

chase@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r gaim
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove gaim, only the config
files of which are on the system. Use --purge to remove them too.
chase@ubuntu:~$

[sapo]

Thank you for the replies.

I'm not sure whose deb I used, one of the ones in this thread( not the first post, that does not work).

But in any case, using sudo dpkg -r gaim gives the following error/warning.

chase@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r gaim
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove gaim, only the config
files of which are on the system. Use --purge to remove them too.
chase@ubuntu:~$
It seems that you dont have a deb package of gaim installed, try using sudo make uninstall from the gaim cvs folder

[Turtle.net]

there is no dev for libtools...
what version of automake do you use?
I used automake1.4, I will try the same procedure with automake1.9
....

[rwabel]

Is anyone else not a fan of the new interface? If you're connected on many accounts those buttons on the bottom get annoying. Also if you are scrolling down your buddy list and you accidently go over one of the status buttons it'll switch your status. Hmm, not liking this so far.

yeah it takes a lot of space to display the state of the different messenger

[MicroChris]

This is what I get:

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occurred. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.configure: error:
*** GLib 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GLib
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GLib is
*** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.

What actual package(s) do I have to grab? Thanks in advance.

[MicroChris]

Crap now what did I do...


checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0...
*** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.9.0, but GLIB (2.8.3)
*** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error
*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
*** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
*** required on your system.
*** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
*** to point to the correct configuration files


Help!

[MicroChris]

Alright nevermind, I got rid of it.. How do I remove the directory from my desktop now?

sudo rm /gaim

doesnt work.

:(

[sapo]

Alright nevermind, I got rid of it.. How do I remove the directory from my desktop now?

sudo rm /gaim

doesnt work.

:(
rm -Rf gaim

[MicroChris]

Cool thanks man.

[viscount]

OK, several suggestions:

1.

Ubuntu official package is libgnutls11, you do not need 10. So do
sudo apt-get install libgnutls11-dev
2. If you want sound support, you need libao:
sudo apt-get install libao-dev
3. If you need spellchecking support, you need libgtkspell:
sudo apt-get install libgtkspell-dev


That worked for me, thanks foxy123 :KS
..yeah, gaim2 is pretty nice.
But now synaptic keeps wanting to reinstall gaim1.5 :???:
There must be some way to mask that version of gaim, but
Im too new to ubuntu to know how yet. meh.

[foxy123]

That worked for me, thanks foxy123 :KS
..yeah, gaim2 is pretty nice.
But now synaptic keeps wanting to reinstall gaim1.5 :???:
There must be some way to mask that version of gaim, but
Im too new to ubuntu to know how yet. meh.
if you use checkinstall, than when you see the
This package will be built according to these values:
hit 3 and enter something like
2:2.0.0.0cvs

The easier way would be to 'lock' the version in Synaptic.

[foxy123]

I used automake1.4, I will try the same procedure with automake1.9
....
please let us know the results....

[SirKillalot]

anyone got an idea how often the cvs repo gets updated? I found some unimportant bugs, and I wonder if they get fixed or whether I should try to fix them by myself :-/

[foxy123]

anyone got an idea how often the cvs repo gets updated? I found some unimportant bugs, and I wonder if they get fixed or whether I should try to fix them by myself :-/
I guess it is constantly ubdated...

[Chrissss]

Hi there!

I can compile gaim 2.0 cvs gaim, but when i try to start it i get this error, and gaim wont start:

# gaim
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb766a684 ***

Any ideas?

CU
CHristoph

[akurashy]

Hi there!

I can compile gaim 2.0 cvs gaim, but when i try to start it i get this error, and gaim wont start:

# gaim
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb766a684 ***

Any ideas?

CU
CHristoph

yea i got the same thing, (while trying to add gtkspell support and audio)
im trying to figure it out :)

[Turtle.net]

please let us know the results....
You know what...
That worked :D
Thanks for your help

[Heliode]

yea i got the same thing, (while trying to add gtkspell support and audio)
im trying to figure it out :)

Using your .deb right now... it's great, but it would be even greater if you managed to add those things.

Keep up the good work!

[curtis]

Anyone had any luck with having sound in gAIM 2.x, when you use ALSA and not ESD?

[monkeyface]

Which packages do I need to install to enable video/voice support?

[monkeyface]

Anyone had any luck with having sound in gAIM 2.x, when you use ALSA and not ESD?
Install sox, and use command "play %s" for playing sounds.

[Chrissss]

yea i got the same thing, (while trying to add gtkspell support and audio) im trying to figure it out :)
Ah, great, well not soo great. But at least it's not me screwing up the compilation... ;)

[sapo]

i ve changed my deb yesterday, and it now has gtkspell and audio support, try it out :P

[Pedricko]

Rah when will Gaim-VV be implemented dammit

[curtis]

My favourite bit(s) of gAIM 2.x are the buddy list with the status choosers and secondly the message windows, removing the send,block etc makes it a lot cleaner.
Scrolling down is nice as well, can't wait till they get Gaim-VV merged into it though...

[sapo]

Rah when will Gaim-VV be implemented dammit
Dunno, but i want it too :(

[rwabel]

i ve changed my deb yesterday, and it now has gtkspell and audio support, try it out :P

thanks a lot for it!

[sapo]

thanks a lot for it!
Did it work how it is supposed to?

[akurashy]

Using your .deb right now... it's great, but it would be even greater if you managed to add those things.

Keep up the good work!

thanks a lot guys, i try to figure it out and fix the download link soon :)

[MBro]

i ve changed my deb yesterday, and it now has gtkspell and audio support, try it out :P
Nice, I like it better

[akurashy]

For everyone here, I have updated my deb package,

http://davidgonz.com/gaim-2.0.0_2.0.0-1_i386.deb

Now with Spell support and Audio

Output:

gaim 2.0.0cvs

Build Protocol Plugins........ : yes
Protocols to link statically.. :
Protocols to build dynamically : gg irc jabber msn novell oscar sametime simple yahoo zephyr

UI Library.................... : GTK+ 2.x
SSL Library/Libraries......... : Mozilla NSS and GNUTLS

Build with Plugin support..... : yes
Build with Mono support....... : yes
Build with Perl support....... : yes
Build with Tcl support........ : yes
Build with Tk support......... : yes
Build with Audio support...... : yes
Build with GtkSpell support... : yes
Build with Voice/Video support : no
Build with DBUS support....... : no
Has you....................... : yes

Use kerberos 4 with zephyr.... : no
Use external libzephyr........ : no

Use XScreenSaver Extension.... : no
Use X Session Management...... : yes
Use startup notification.......: yes

Print debugging messages...... : no


Also a tip for sapo, to add documentation support

sudo apt-get install doxygen doxygen-docs , if you knew well my bad, just thought it would be handy :)

[i3dmaster]

Great work both of your guys! Its awesome.

[Kevin]

For everyone here, I have updated my deb package,

http://davidgonz.com/gaim-2.0.0_2.0.0-1_i386.deb

Now with Spell support and Audio

Using this .deb I now get that same earlier reported error... back to using the old one for now I guess ;)

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7485684 ***
Aborted

[Chrissss]

Yep, i also get this error

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb749e684 ***

is there a lib missing??

[pomalin]

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb749e684 ***

I compil gaimcvs for a month now, each days, and this error comes when I have libmono, I have to remove beagle, and of course libmono to have gaim run without this error. I did a backtrace before, and it's mono that cause this error. (for me)
I have voice and video support enable, but no buttons, and nowhere to play with, I think it's enable, but not completely implemented.

[Chrissss]

Yep, you are right. When i deinstall libmono0 (and beagle, f-spot...) the current version starts...

[akurashy]

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb749e684 ***

I compil gaimcvs for a month now, each days, and this error comes when I have libmono, I have to remove beagle, and of course libmono to have gaim run without this error. I did a backtrace before, and it's mono that cause this error. (for me)
I have voice and video support enable, but no buttons, and nowhere to play with, I think it's enable, but not completely implemented.

ohh how you enable voice/video support?, about the glib.. you guys got me there.., i had that error but somehow it got fixed.

[Karma_Police]

You can install the last one, and then do:
sudo rm /usr/local/lib/gaim/mono.*

No need to uninstall libmono and mono programs.

[Chrissss]

No need to uninstall libmono and mono programs.
Yes, this works. Thanks!

[pomalin]

to enable voice and video I install from source linphone/ilbc/speex.
and configure with --enable-vv.
thanks for the mono thing ;)

[rwabel]

Did it work how it is supposed to?

yep spellchecker is working for me, but sound doesn't. but maybe gaim uses the wrong output device

[MBro]

to enable voice and video I install from source linphone/ilbc/speex.
and configure with --enable-vv.
thanks for the mono thing ;)
How well does vv work as of now? If they were thinking about putting it into 2.0 it has to be at least fairly decent right?

[pomalin]

Like I say, it's enable, but I can't find a way to use it.

[rwabel]

How well does vv work as of now? If they were thinking about putting it into 2.0 it has to be at least fairly decent right?

I've heard they will release a beta version at the end of the week.

[Pedricko]

When VV beta is released could someone do instructions on implementation?

[akurashy]

When VV beta is released could someone do instructions on implementation?

I be sure to add a little manual if sapo lets me here in this thread, and i be sure to add vv support in my deb :), its already added, but they haven't added it in the GUI it seems.

[foxy123]

I be sure to add a little manual if sapo lets me here in this thread, and i be sure to add vv support in my deb :), its already added, but they haven't added it in the GUI it seems.
we all are looking forward to it!

[sapo]

I be sure to add a little manual if sapo lets me here in this thread, and i be sure to add vv support in my deb :), its already added, but they haven't added it in the GUI it seems.
do as you like, if you want ask bored to edit my post hehe i dont mind :P

[akurashy]

do as you like, if you want ask bored to edit my post hehe i dont mind :P

ok! thanks :D

[limit223]

Install sox, and use command "play %s" for playing sounds.

I found "aplay %s" sounds much better....after installing alsaplayer.

[bored2k]

I found "aplay %s" sounds much better....after installing alsaplayer.
Depends on what you use. For me, esdplay works best.

[limit223]

yeap ..I was referring to alsasound, strictly which for my sound card works better ...esound in my system is deactivated...

[-DarkMind-]

thanks :)

[Mahke]

Great, thanks for the howto :)

[Ride Jib]

First off, the deb file worked great on my system.

The away message buttons on the bottom piss me off to no extent, as well as the width of the menu-bar due to the new contexts. Otherwise I like it.

The new file transferring works!!! Except I can't get it to transfer at anything faster than 10kb/s. Even with my roommate being on the same router!! Anyone else experiencing this problem?

[akurashy]

First off, the deb file worked great on my system.

The away message buttons on the bottom piss me off to no extent, as well as the width of the menu-bar due to the new contexts. Otherwise I like it.

The new file transferring works!!! Except I can't get it to transfer at anything faster than 10kb/s. Even with my roommate being on the same router!! Anyone else experiencing this problem?

Well I get 25kb/s sometimes, but yes sometimes is slow :(

[christooss]

You can remove Away buttons :)

[Ride Jib]

You can remove Away buttons :)

Would you like to share with us how to go about doing this?

[christooss]

Im lying you cant remove them. but you can at least hide them

Grab the line between Friends list and those status buttons. Now move that line down :)

[ameerirshad]

Looks nice, looking forward to the other features, as voice-support for stuff like GTalk!

[souled]

Hmm in the Away/Idle tab in Preferences, I don't have any options for the "Change status to:" I click the arrow, but no options are present. Is this not implemented yet, or is there something wrong?

[Ride Jib]

Hmm in the Away/Idle tab in Preferences, I don't have any options for the "Change status to:" I click the arrow, but no options are present. Is this not implemented yet, or is there something wrong?

I'm guessing not implemented. Just like I don't have the ability to remove those annoying "idle times" from displaying in my buddy list window.

[lysis]

the debian package worked FLAWLESSLY.


i uninstalled gaim 1.5 and the debian went on without a hitch. i'm using it now and there's SO MUCH to say about it.


thanks for the how to my man.

[thewayofzen]

great how to. with the two debs one of them had problems on my system with sounds not playing.. i had to change the sound output to play command and then have it issue play %s. other then that i found this great. I still cannot figure out for the life of me how to UNBLOCK someone in gaim. I dont think its possible but cannot understand why it isnt being added to 2.0

[bored2k]

great how to. with the two debs one of them had problems on my system with sounds not playing.. i had to change the sound output to play command and then have it issue play %s. other then that i found this great. I still cannot figure out for the life of me how to UNBLOCK someone in gaim. I dont think its possible but cannot understand why it isnt being added to 2.0

Unblocking users: Main window: Accounts: Privacy: Remove from the block list.
Playing sounds: install the esound-clients package, and under the Sound tab in Preferences, type down esdplay %s.

[nehalem]

You know what...
That worked :D
Thanks for your help
Yet I'm having the same issue with automake 1.9....

I have libtool installed too. I swear compiling never works for me.

[nehalem]

Well the deb works. I don't really get the whole status changing part but overall gain is way better. The interface is SO much cleaner.

[nehalem]

Yeah, the away stuff is messed up. I had to change it so it never makes me away since when it goes to away automatically, it won't switch back to being present automatically.

Wierd. How far off is gaim 2 from being release BTW?

Hmmm, after thinking about it I wonder it this is because it wants to use galago. Will Dapper have galago? Do any of the rest of you have problems with it not setting you available again?

[sapo]

Unblocking users: Main window: Accounts: Privacy: Remove from the block list.
Playing sounds: install the esound-clients package, and under the Sound tab in Preferences, type down esdplay %s.

The last .deb i ve compile is with sound, you can just chose ALSA on the sound menu :p

[MighMoS]

Wierd. How far off is gaim 2 from being release BTW?

Sometime recently, I heard the phrase "two weeks from beta". That was maybe a week ago. So two weeks, minus one week equals one week, plus last minute dev changes (1.5 weeks), minus half that - rolled back patches (1 week), plus lag to get to mirrors and packaging (1 day). So the answer is .... maybe? :razz:

[Karma_Police]

Sometime recently, I heard the phrase "two weeks from beta". That was maybe a week ago. (...)

According to the news on the official gaim site (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/), the beta should come out tomorrow (Friday, December 16th).

[curtis]

According to the news on the official gaim site (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/), the beta should come out tomorrow (Friday, December 16th).
Sounds good, can't wait really.

[ubuntu27]

Hey guys, I've been following this How-to.
And well, I am stack at step one:

ubuntu27@heaven:~$ cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gaim' login
bash: cvs: command not found

[foxy123]

Hey guys, I've been following this How-to.
And well, I am stack at step one:

ubuntu27@heaven:~$ cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gaim' login
bash: cvs: command not found

install cvs, I guess it should be
sudo apt-get install cvs

[Jormundgand]

In case you don't want the hairy situation of having gaim and gaim2.0.0 coexisting as separate package lines or be pestered by upgrade messages then I made this package (http://ketsuban.net/gaim_2.0.0cvs2-1_i386.deb) which fixes the version issue of sapo's original.

[Chrissss]

Was somebody successfull compiling gaim with --enable-vv? Thats the Video and Voice Support. But when i try this make fails.

CU
Christoph

[WishMaster]

In case you don't want the hairy situation of having gaim and gaim2.0.0 coexisting as separate package lines or be pestered by upgrade messages then I made this package (http://ketsuban.net/gaim_2.0.0cvs2-1_i386.deb) which fixes the version issue of sapo's original.
Thanks man !
Synaptic is saying I have 2 broken packages:
- gaim-dev (1.5)
- gaim-guifications (2.12)

So I have no guifications :cry: and my gaim-xmms doesn't work either :cry:
Oh well, it'll be solved when gaim2.0 goes public (instead of CVS).

1 annoying thing: the big "bars" from your accounts at the bottom. Waste of space.

I do like the way new message-lines get 'added' in a chat window.

I *REALLY* want to see webcam working (I got it working in aMSN 0.95b (CVS))

screenshot -->
http://www.fileshare.be/img.php?img=Gaim2.jpg&yr=05

[MBro]

Grab the dotted part above your individual accounts and you can drag it down and hide them

[WishMaster]

I know :)
But that still leaves 1 big box from the gaim-account and the 'big' box saying "Hello!"
Anyway, it's a big improvement since 1.5

[ameerirshad]

I installed it, it runs fine........ some things are bothering though:

1) the fact that I see all my accounts at the bottom. Now I read somewhere that you can set the "away" setting to all accounts at once (you know what I mean?) But I can't find this feature

2) I continue to receive a update notifier saying there is a "new Gaim" version 1.5. So this version is not recognized by synaptic as being newer! Even though I removed Gaim 1.5...

I will stick it out till the official release. Btw, anyone knows what the status is of voip in this gaim?

[christooss]

quote1) the fact that I see all my accounts at the bottom. Now I read somewhere that you can set the "away" setting to all accounts at once (you know what I mean?) But I can't find this feature


The big button on bottom of List window. Under all those away buttons for each account

There is a gaim icon on that button

[JimmyJazz]

hey I compiled a gaim-guifications from CVS to work with GAIM 2.0

you can download it here:

http://jimmyjazz.homeip.net:808/guifications2_guifications2-1_i386.deb

[rwabel]

hey I compiled a gaim-guifications from CVS to work with GAIM 2.0

you can download it here:

http://jimmyjazz.homeip.net:808/guifications2_guifications2-1_i386.deb

thanks

[thechitowncubs]

Gaim 2.0 Beta Released

http://gaim.sourceforge.net

[MBro]

Hmmm, I'll wait for a deb, i'm too busy to make one right now for everyone, sorry.

[akurashy]

right now checking this release :D

[curtis]

Weird,
It worked fine before...
But now if I try the deb package, or compile it my self it results in:


*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7476684 ***
Aborted

When I run gaim from the command line.
Might be due to my enviroment variables... I'm not sure.
This is what is in /etc/enviroment anyway:


LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

CFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=pentium4m -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=pentium4m -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions"

[ubuntu27]

install cvs, I guess it should be
sudo apt-get install cvs
Thank you foxy123 :) I have Gaim 2.0 from CVS now :)

[ubuntu27]

Gaim 2.0 Beta Released

http://gaim.sourceforge.net
Yeah...
ANd I've installed Gaim 2.0 CVS just two days ago... :(

Shouldn't we use the BETA now ?

[akurashy]

Here is my deb contribution of GAIM Beta 1

http://davidgonz.com/gaim-2.0.0_2.0.0-1_i386.deb

Video/Voice support added but GAIM haven't added it directly

Enjoy!

[MighMoS]

Weird,
It worked fine before...
But now if I try the deb package, or compile it my self it results in:


*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7476684 ***
Aborted

When I run gaim from the command line.
Might be due to my enviroment variables... I'm not sure.
This is what is in /etc/enviroment anyway:


LANGUAGE="en_GB:en"

LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

CFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=pentium4m -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=pentium4m -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions"



Looks worse than my Gentoo OS :razz: Anyway, what happens with "-O2 -pipe", and have you custom-compiled any other relevant libraries on your system?

[Chrissss]

But now if I try the deb package, or compile it my self it results in:

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7476684 ***
Aborted
Take a look here

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=566396&postcount=83

You've got to delete some files.

CU
Christoph

[rwabel]

Here is my deb contribution of GAIM Beta 1

http://davidgonz.com/gaim-2.0.0_2.0.0-1_i386.deb

Video/Voice support added but GAIM haven't added it directly

Enjoy!

thanks for the deb file. I get the following message when I want to start up gaim
gaim: error while loading shared libraries: libsamplerate.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[akurashy]

thanks for the deb file. I get the following message when I want to start up gaim
gaim: error while loading shared libraries: libsamplerate.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


try getting

sudo apt-get install ortp0
sudo apt-get install doxygen

[rwabel]

try getting

sudo apt-get install ortp0
sudo apt-get install doxygen

ortp0 doesn't exist, so I've installed libortp0 and oxygen...still no luck

[akurashy]

Oh my bad

sudo apt-get install libsamplerate0

[rwabel]

Oh my bad

sudo apt-get install libsamplerate0

damn now I've a problem. :-) I'm using dapper and I don't have libjack-0.8, but libjack0.100.0-0

/usr/local/bin/gaim: error while loading shared libraries: libjack-0.80.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[akurashy]

damn now I've a problem. :-) I'm using dapper and I don't have libjack-0.8, but libjack0.100.0-0

/usr/local/bin/gaim: error while loading shared libraries: libjack-0.80.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

can't you get 0.80 from repo? :(

[rwabel]

no that's not really possible now under dapper, because jackd is already in the newer version. I think your version will only work under breezy due to the version change of some packages. But otherwise your version would work. I can start it but I've unmet dep. problems now ;-) I've to remove the package and your gaim won't work. isn't it possible to indicate a flexible dependency for the libjack? it's working the newer version too!!

Unpacking libjack0.80.0-0 (from libjack0.80.0-0_0.99.0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libjack0.80.0-0:
libjack0.80.0-0 depends on jackd (= 0.99.0-2ubuntu1); however:
Version of jackd on system is 0.100.0-4.
dpkg: error processing libjack0.80.0-0 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libjack0.80.0-0

[akurashy]

no that's not really possible now under dapper, because jackd is already in the newer version. I think your version will only work under breezy due to the version change of some packages. But otherwise your version would work. I can start it but I've unmet dep. problems now ;-) I've to remove the package and your gaim won't work. isn't it possible to indicate a flexible dependency for the libjack? it's working the newer version too!!

Unpacking libjack0.80.0-0 (from libjack0.80.0-0_0.99.0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libjack0.80.0-0:
libjack0.80.0-0 depends on jackd (= 0.99.0-2ubuntu1); however:
Version of jackd on system is 0.100.0-4.
dpkg: error processing libjack0.80.0-0 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libjack0.80.0-0

eeep, sadly i don't have dapper installed :(

[rwabel]

isn't there a file called DEBIAN/control?
I guess it would be enough to change the version of libjack to the dapper one. But I'm not a packager :-)

[akurashy]

isn't there a file called DEBIAN/control?
I guess it would be enough to change the version of libjack to the dapper one. But I'm not a packager :-)

i could compile jack 0.100 and do a version for dapper :), but i still don't know if it will work, and also that means it will screw my current things (libjack 0.80)

[kleeman]

I got the deb working after the following:
sudo apt-get install libortp

[superm1]

i could compile jack 0.100 and do a version for dapper :), but i still don't know if it will work, and also that means it will screw my current things (libjack 0.80)
Whats actually involved with building the deb? I'd gladly build one for dapper if someone described to me how to do so.

[akurashy]

Whats actually involved with building the deb? I'd gladly build one for dapper if someone described to me how to do so.

its very easy to build a deb,

if you are in dapper
./configure
then
make
then sudo apt-get install checkinstall
sudo checkinstall

(Checkinstall do a deb, after you get the deb you can upload it and contribute it here :)) also get libjack-dev
it should work nicely :), but if you want to add more support, i sugggest you look at the first post :)

[robertq]

Uhh dudes...

For those with dapper...

Just go into /usr/lib
and run:

sudo ln -s libjack-0.100.0.so.0 libjack-0.80.0.so.0


No need to make a new deb for dapper!

Robert

[superm1]

Uhh dudes...

For those with dapper...

Just go into /usr/lib
and run:

sudo ln -s libjack-0.100.0.so.0 libjack-0.80.0.so.0


No need to make a new deb for dapper!

Robert

Well thats convient, I was running into some difficulties while building anyway.

[curtis]

Take a look here

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=566396&postcount=83

You've got to delete some files.

CU
Christoph
Wow, it worked.
Thank you a lot... should of searched a bit more I guess...

[WishMaster]

Here is my deb contribution of GAIM Beta 1
http://davidgonz.com/gaim-2.0.0_2.0.0-1_i386.deb
Video/Voice support added but GAIM haven't added it directly
Enjoy!

Got that working with:
- sudo apt-get install libortp0
- sudo apt-get install libsamplerate0

But I don't see any cam/voice support :confused:

[rwabel]

akurashy (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=292): keep in mind, such deb files are not always working for others because they are simple debs and compiled with your system configuration. For personal usage I do the same. :-)

robertq (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=60236): yes right, how right and how simple...wasn't thinking a lot yesterday night :-)

[akurashy]

akurashy (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=292): keep in mind, such deb files are not always working for others because they are simple debs and compiled with your system configuration. For personal usage I do the same. :-)


I know rwabel :), just like to help, I know it won't work with all the computers or maybe they just need to dependencies

WishMaster: They haven't added it yet completely :(

[akurashy]

Eeep, this is a mini announcement

I'm going to be moving my debs to my personal site. this site will contain some amd64 debs (my friend is doing them) i'm doing x86 :) (i tell when the site is up)

[MighMoS]

Eeep, this is a mini announcement

I'm going to be moving my debs to my personal site. this site will contain some amd64 debs (my friend is doing them) i'm doing x86 :) (i tell when the site is up)
Arg! I was going to do the same thing! Only my AMD64 site was gonna have i386 debs as well! (http://mighmos.org) even though most of it isn't quite functional, yet.

[akurashy]

Arg! I was going to do the same thing! Only my AMD64 site was gonna have i386 debs as well! (http://mighmos.org) even though most of it isn't quite functional, yet.

Well all to contribute!, I bet people wouldn't mind more mirrors and options :D

[chien]

just installed the deb

WHERE IS the voice and video??????

[akurashy]

just installed the deb

WHERE IS the voice and video??????

Eeeep, that haven't been added, i think its going to be added next release i think

[MighMoS]

If anyone wants to use the same gaim format that Ubuntu uses, so its stops yelling at you about broken gaim packages, I have them here:

http://mighmos.org/packages/gaim-2.0.0beta1-i386.tar.gz
http://mighmos.org/packages/gaim-2.0.0beta1-amd64.tar.gz
http://mighmos.org/packages/gaim_2.0.0beta1-1unofficial0.tar.gz

UPDATE: Once you extract your arcitecture's tarball, you should specify all three files on the command line to correctly resolve dependencies.

[MBro]

sweet, thanks, works great

[cbudden]

Anyone noticed that you don't get the "user has closed the conversation window" message any more?

[Karma_Police]

Anyone noticed that you don't get the "user has closed the conversation window" message any more?

In the msn network? msn messenger 7 and up just close the conversation after 1 min anyway, so they took it out. They didn't want the users to have the wrong information... I had it turned off because of that anyway.

[cbudden]

In the msn network? msn messenger 7 and up just close the conversation after 1 min anyway, so they took it out. They didn't want the users to have the wrong information... I had it turned off because of that anyway.

Yes, this is in MSN, oh well thanks for the info.

[mrgnash]

If anyone wants to use the same gaim format that Ubuntu uses, so its stops yelling at you about broken gaim packages, I have them here:

http://mighmos.org/packages/gaim-2.0.0beta1-i386.tar.gz
http://mighmos.org/packages/gaim-2.0.0beta1-amd64.tar.gz
http://mighmos.org/packages/gaim_2.0.0beta1-1unofficial0.tar.gz

What do I do with those? I tried running dpkg -i with the packages contained in the AMD64 zip but I just keep getting errors about directories and archives.

Maybe it's because Gaim didn't uninstall properly? I used apt-get remove and it whined about unmet dependencies *sigh*

[MighMoS]

Maybe it's because Gaim didn't uninstall properly? I used apt-get remove and it whined about unmet dependencies *sigh*

I'm guessing its because they're not in a repository that its having difficulty resolving how they depend on eachother. Specify all three on the command line at once, and it should work. I'm updating my post to reflect this.

[mrgnash]

That works, thanks :)

[mattisking]

If anyone wants to use the same gaim format that Ubuntu uses, so its stops yelling at you about broken gaim packages, I have them here

Hey, Thanks! Kinda strange interface changes. I'm not sure what to do with all these huge buttons that are there now. I don't much care for them really.

[MighMoS]

You can hide them by dragging the bar. I do.

[superm1]

i'm wondering why the choice to get rid of all buttons in a window? I personally liked being able to click the info and add buttons instead of having to chose the menu option.

[christooss]

How can I make my buddy icons smaler?

I can't find that in settings.

Thanks

[NachoMas]

Hi!
I am having problems compiling gaim 2.0 in my ubuntu box. I have an up to date drapper laptop and libgtk2.0-dev is installed, but the configure script keeps on complaining that I don't have gtk properly installed:

checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... 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 occurred. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.

The config.log complains about not finding gtk/gtk.h:

configure:31488: checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0
configure:31633: result: no
configure:31666: gcc -o conftest -g -O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -f
expensive-optimizations conftest.c -lnsl -lresolv >&5
conftest.c:113:21: error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory

But gtk.h is installed:

ls -la /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5945 Dec 13 14:02 /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h

I have tried to install gtk1.2-dev and remove and reinstall the dev packages, but nothing seems to work. I guess I must have something wrong in /usr/include/ but I canät find it:

ls /usr/include/gtk*
/usr/include/gtk-1.2:
gdk gtk

/usr/include/gtk-2.0:
gdk gdk-pixbuf gdk-pixbuf-xlib gtk

/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0:
gtkspell

So I am running out of ideas! Any help on what can be wrong? Why is the configure script not finding the gtk.h header?

Thanks for the help!
/Nacho

[christooss]

How can I make my buddy icons smaler?

I can't find that in settings.

Thanks

[NachoMas]

Hi!
I am having problems compiling gaim 2.0 in my ubuntu box. I have an up to date drapper laptop and libgtk2.0-dev is installed, but the configure script keeps on complaining that I don't have gtk properly installed:

checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... 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 occurred. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.

The config.log complains about not finding gtk/gtk.h:

configure:31488: checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0
configure:31633: result: no
configure:31666: gcc -o conftest -g -O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -f
expensive-optimizations conftest.c -lnsl -lresolv >&5
conftest.c:113:21: error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory

But gtk.h is installed:

ls -la /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5945 Dec 13 14:02 /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h

I have tried to install gtk1.2-dev and remove and reinstall the dev packages, but nothing seems to work. I guess I must have something wrong in /usr/include/ but I canät find it:

ls /usr/include/gtk*
/usr/include/gtk-1.2:
gdk gtk

/usr/include/gtk-2.0:
gdk gdk-pixbuf gdk-pixbuf-xlib gtk

/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0:
gtkspell

So I am running out of ideas! Any help on what can be wrong? Why is the configure script not finding the gtk.h header?

Thanks for the help!
/Nacho

[Chrissss]

How can I make my buddy icons smaler? I can't find that in settings.

Buddies -> Deaktivate "Show Buddy Details"

CU
Christoph

[Revert]

I'm not real sure what I did...

I got the source and everything fine. ./configure, make, then did a checkinstall. It said the .deb ended up failing, but GAIM 2's installed now. I can't uninstall it using dpkg or make uninstall.

Any ideas what happened? I didn't save any of the output from the checkinstall (hadn't noticed it was borked for awhile), but I'm sure I can replicate it if need be.

[invisage01]

Nacho..

i have the exact same problem.. i got lost in it all last night.. gave up.. went to bed and was hoping someone had a solution for that bad boy yet!!! obviously not yet!!

here's hopin!

i.

[Karma_Police]

(...) It said the .deb ended up failing, but GAIM 2's installed now. I can't uninstall it using dpkg or make uninstall.

Any ideas what happened? (..)


Did you have synaptic or apt-get running at the same time? The thing is, it first installs all the files, and then creates the deb and registers it somehow in the programs "database". So all the files were installed, but it couldn't run the deb because of a conflict with something else. I had the same thing happen to me, and it didn't output any error. just said it failed. then I noticed I still had synaptic open because I was installing some libs... :s

Try installing the deb again, and then uninstalling it.


Now, I compiled the beta myself but gaim seems to use gaim usage to set me away, instead of X usage... Anyone have any ideas about this?

[Revert]

Thanks, that worked. :)

[superm1]

How do I actually properly build my plugins from source? I wanted to build gaim-thinklight against gaim2, but I can't seem to grab the sources properly with apt.

supermario@portablemario:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-build build-source gaim-thinklight
E: Unable to find a source package for gaim-thinklight
Some error occured building package

[Karma_Police]

Can't you get the source from their site and compile it yourself?

Anyway, I don't think gaim 1.5 plugins are compatible with gaim 2.0 :???: They seem to have changed the plugins api. I think you need to wait for an updated plugin that suports gaim 2.0. Guifications seems to have done it allready.

[superm1]

Can't you get the source from their site and compile it yourself?

Anyway, I don't think gaim 1.5 plugins are compatible with gaim 2.0 :???: They seem to have changed the plugins api. I think you need to wait for an updated plugin that suports gaim 2.0. Guifications seems to have done it allready.

Well the main site for it is actually housed at a debian stronghold somewhere. I was assuming since that is where it came from, perhaps the source package might be directly available to apt. I was hoping to avoid building it from scratch and then having a binary lingering that isn't in my apt database properly. I'll grab the sources and see what sort of luck I churn out.

Also for the curious, there is a mention of the gentoo forums gathering an ebuild that could get a working gaim-encryption. So this can be soon rebuilt too.

[akurashy]

i have guifications installed in my gaim2 (i got it from CVS) i can do a deb of guifications IF needed

[Ride Jib]

I'm having trouble compiling the beta source on my machine. Can anyone diagnose this output? I do ./configure, and make fine. Then make install does this:

e:~/gaim-2.0.0beta1$ make install
Making install in doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/brad/gaim-2.0.0beta1/doc'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/brad/gaim-2.0.0beta1/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/man/man1" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/man/man1"
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/man': File exists
make[2]: *** [install-man1] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/brad/gaim-2.0.0beta1/doc'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/brad/gaim-2.0.0beta1/doc'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1


Thanks!

[LoclynGrey]

installed from .deb and working fine. cheers

[akurashy]

I'm having trouble compiling the beta source on my machine. Can anyone diagnose this output? I do ./configure, and make fine. Then make install does this:

e:~/gaim-2.0.0beta1$ make install
Making install in doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/brad/gaim-2.0.0beta1/doc'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/brad/gaim-2.0.0beta1/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/man/man1" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/man/man1"
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/man': File exists
make[2]: *** [install-man1] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/brad/gaim-2.0.0beta1/doc'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/brad/gaim-2.0.0beta1/doc'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Thanks!

try 'sudo make install'

[MaX]

I just compiled from CVS and it segfaults directly.

Does anyone have a working version for AMD64 processors?
I can't use the debs you put up here since they are i386.

[Ride Jib]

try 'sudo make install'

I tried that, and it resulted in the exact same error. :???:

[WishMaster]

From http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

On that note, please keep your feedback coming, but there are a few recurring reports we definitely already know about and are working on that you don't need to let us know about anymore:
The per-account statusboxes are a bad idea
The statusboxes in general are too big.
We intentionally removed more preferences than we should have, to see which ones absolutely can't be lived without. Some of them (e.g. Show idle times in buddy list, report idle time by Gaim usage) need to be ressurected
Saved statuses need to be easier to get to
Smooth scroll needs to be optional; people are very polar about how they feel about the smooth scroll
Control-enter, though still optional (see the faq (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q19)), is not particularly easy to find and should perhaps be added to the gaimrc plugin.

[Karma_Police]

I'm having trouble compiling the beta source on my machine. Can anyone diagnose this output? I do ./configure, and make fine. Then make install does this:

(...)

Thanks!


that happened to me.

What I did was move /usr/local/man to /usr/local/man.backup, install gaim, copy the contents from the /usr/local/man that gaim created to /usr/local/man.backup, then you can delete /usr/local/man and mv /usr/local/man.backup /usr/local/man

Hope you can understand that :???: If I wasn't clear enough, feel free to ask.

[MighMoS]

I just compiled from CVS and it segfaults directly.

Does anyone have a working version for AMD64 processors?
I can't use the debs you put up here since they are i386.
Yeah, I posted them earlier. Or just check out http://mighmos.org/packages.php

[e2k]

What I did was move /usr/local/man to /usr/local/man.backup, install gaim, copy the contents from the /usr/local/man that gaim created to /usr/local/man.backup, then you can delete /usr/local/man and mv /usr/local/man.backup /usr/local/man

Hope you can understand that :???: If I wasn't clear enough, feel free to ask.
Hmm, I tried to follow your advice and did this:
sudo mv /usr/local/man /usr/local/man.backup
Did I screw up something? This is what i get now:
$ ls -la /usr/local/
....
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2005-12-09 18:06 man.backup -> share/man
Did I just make the man directory a symlink? There is no /usr/local/share/man :o

EDIT: Nevermind this, just noticed /usr/local/man should be a symlink ;)

[kalosaurusrex]

I know most of you have GAIM2 installed, but for those curious of what it looks likes go to the following link:

http://www.kalosaurusrex.com/screenshots/gaim2/gaim2.html

I couldn't find any good screenshoots, I thought it might be interesting for those that haven't upgraded as of yet.

If someone else has already done this, sorry!

[Ride Jib]

that happened to me.

What I did was move /usr/local/man to /usr/local/man.backup, install gaim, copy the contents from the /usr/local/man that gaim created to /usr/local/man.backup, then you can delete /usr/local/man and mv /usr/local/man.backup /usr/local/man

Hope you can understand that :???: If I wasn't clear enough, feel free to ask.

Thanks man! Worked just fine.

Maybe next week I will put on the 64-bit kernel and post up a .deb for all you 64-bit users.

[Grey]

Just thought I would throw this out there. I have created a few debs (http://people.uleth.ca/~dave.brady/debs/)...

Gaim 2.0.0 Beta 1 (Features idle based upon X usage, rather than Gaim usage, and Synaptic does not try to "upgrade" to 1.5)
gaim-xmms-remote (A useful plugin for controlling xmms from gaim, or showing your current song to your friends)
gaim-guifications (Toaster popups for gaim events)
VLC 0.8.5 (Features VC1 support, so it should play most WMV9s)

Just keep in mind that these are very very unofficial packages, and might not work, and might have undesirable side-effects. But they work great on the 3 PCs I've tried them.

These are all 32-bit, as I have yet to actually upgrade to 64-bit Ubuntu.

[MighMoS]

Just thought I would throw this out there. I have created a few debs (http://people.uleth.ca/~dave.brady/debs/)...

Gaim 2.0.0 Beta 1 (Features idle based upon X usage, rather than Gaim usage, and Synaptic does not try to "upgrade" to 1.5)
gaim-xmms-remote (A useful plugin for controlling xmms from gaim, or showing your current song to your friends)
gaim-guifications (Toaster popups for gaim events)
VLC 0.8.5 (Features VC1 support, so it should play most WMV9s)

Just keep in mind that these are very very unofficial packages, and might not work, and might have undesirable side-effects. But they work great on the 3 PCs I've tried them.

These are all 32-bit, as I have yet to actually upgrade to 64-bit Ubuntu.

Mind providing the source for these packages, so that you don't violate the GPL? (It also has the advantage of other archs being able to use them) :smile:

[Grey]

I honestly have no idea how to go about building a deb-src package. I just used checkinstall for each of those. And the source I used was unmodified from the original sources I downloaded, with the exception of VLC. VLC was compiled with these instructions (http://www.nanocrew.net/2005/09/01/compiling-vlc/), with the exception that I compiled it with HAL enabled. Uncertain about the legality of that one... I can remove it if you want.

Gaim was compiled with the instructions found at the start of this thread... more or less. Source code can be found at the Gaim website. It's unmodified.

Guifications and XMMS-Remote came from here (http://guifications.sourceforge.net/). Also compiled unaltered, with default options (against the default Gaim 2.0 source code).

I suppose technically, I am redistributing GPLed code, and I should include the sources with them. But I am still pretty much a Linux newbie, and I lack the hosting space anyway. (My University only gives me 30MB). But I am mainly just thinking of this as a service to people who haven't been able to get these packages working properly yet. Reading through the many Gaim threads, it seems to me that I've resolved a few problems that others are still facing.

[MighMoS]

I'd just point to a mirror if they're vanilla builds, but you said Gaim does Idle based on X rather than IM usage, so I thought there was some other patch applied.

[Grey]

Nah, that's just the lack of a required dependency for it to work. I just used "sudo apt-get build-dep gaim" to get all the required stuff. I think the exact needed package is libxss-dev in order to make it work.

[limit223]

Just thought I would throw this out there. I have created a few debs (http://people.uleth.ca/~dave.brady/debs/)...

Gaim 2.0.0 Beta 1 (Features idle based upon X usage, rather than Gaim usage, and Synaptic does not try to "upgrade" to 1.5)
gaim-xmms-remote (A useful plugin for controlling xmms from gaim, or showing your current song to your friends)
gaim-guifications (Toaster popups for gaim events)
VLC 0.8.5 (Features VC1 support, so it should play most WMV9s)

Just keep in mind that these are very very unofficial packages, and might not work, and might have undesirable side-effects. But they work great on the 3 PCs I've tried them.

These are all 32-bit, as I have yet to actually upgrade to 64-bit Ubuntu.


Thank you! Finally I've got my favorite plugin: guifications to work..nice job with your .deb's I installed them all.

[Nano]

I'm not really happy with the new version. I think I'll switch back to 1.5 until they release the voice-video features, which will be, in my opinion, the only reason to upgrade.
I've already seen they found out that some changes were bad ideas.
What I'd love more is a way to completely customize the look of the contact list, like remove contact icons next to names, etc. in order to have a very tiny window.

Just my 2 cents

[MighMoS]

Uncheck "show buddy details" in the buddies menu.

[akurashy]

Debs has been removed from my personal site.

Debs are going to be uploaded in

http://ubuntu.akurashy.com

There will be other debs there aswell, I'm not responsible for anything that happens to your computer, Use it at your own risk. I will provide support of course.

There are other people contributing debs aswell

(Also if anyone is interested in contributing deb please pm me)

[Grey]

Thank you! Finally I've got my favorite plugin: guifications to work..nice job with your .deb's I installed them all.

Glad that it could help you. :)

I also just posted a Skype deb to the site, that will actually install on Ubuntu. (I just modified the dependencies to the Ubuntu dependencies, rather than the Debian ones).

[rbrugman]

... isn't gaim 2.0 supposed to have uPnP/NAT translation? i still can't send and recieve files :(

It is, and does! Maybe it's your router. I have a Linksys WRT54G (with dd-wrt firmware) and it works great.

[akurashy]

SOrry I took long! :D, the deb is here to stay!

http://ubuntu.akurashy.com/gaim-2.0.0_2.0.0-1_i386.deb

wget -c http://ubuntu.akurashy.com/gaim-2.0.0_2.0.0-1_i386.deb

Lata! (PS. I might update it later!)

[ShirishAg75]

you forgot a very simple command if it's a deb dpkg -i gaim2.0whatever.deb, this needs to be part of the howto on the 1st page as well as the amsn & esounds thing which is on the 2nd page. Btw was able to install the default gaim2.0cvs*.deb without any issues. The sound & other stuff whenever u update then will do that. Thanx for that.

[WishMaster]

Just a question: is there an auto-reply (plugin) for the MSNnetwork?

[cutOff]

SOrry I took long! :D, the deb is here to stay!

http://ubuntu.akurashy.com/gaim-2.0.0_2.0.0-1_i386.deb

wget -c http://ubuntu.akurashy.com/gaim-2.0.0_2.0.0-1_i386.deb

Lata! (PS. I might update it later!)
Thanks mate for packaging.

[Rev. Nathan]

Awesome. I still can't get make/install stuff to work for me, so after 20 minutes of doing that, tried your .deb file and that worked from the get-go. Thanks!

By the way, this is great! And the available messesages will go great with AIM Triton coming out soon.

[Pedricko]

I'm having a problem.

I tried to install Gaim 2 from the .deb file, but when I tried to load it up I got:

pedro@ubuntu:~$ gaim
gaim: error while loading shared libraries: libsamplerate.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

so I removed it and installled the one from apt-get yet still get the same error... help?

[Suzan]

Thanks grey! GAIM works great!

[MrRoboto]

I'm having a problem.

I tried to install Gaim 2 from the .deb file, but when I tried to load it up I got:

pedro@ubuntu:~$ gaim
gaim: error while loading shared libraries: libsamplerate.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

so I removed it and installled the one from apt-get yet still get the same error... help?


symlink the libs:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libsamplerate.so.0.1.1 /usr/lib/libsamplerate.so.0


and so on..

[LaSSarD]

I'm having a problem.

I tried to install Gaim 2 from the .deb file, but when I tried to load it up I got:

pedro@ubuntu:~$ gaim
gaim: error while loading shared libraries: libsamplerate.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

so I removed it and installled the one from apt-get yet still get the same error... help?
sudo apt-get install libsamplerate0 libjack0.80.0-0 libortp0

this command should take care of all the libs it will ask before running successfully (it did here)

good luck!

[swoon]

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7469a84 ***
Aborted

i get this when runing the gaim build posted in thisa thread. i'm not really sure what it means, really.

[akurashy]

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7469a84 ***
Aborted

i get this when runing the gaim build posted in thisa thread. i'm not really sure what it means, really.


you need to install mono

[swoon]

sudo apt-get install mono
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
mono is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.

it looks like i have most of the other mono stuff installed, is there another dep i could be missing?

[Azriphale]

perhaps you can find out what other deps you are missing by grabbing the source from CVS, and just running "./autogen.sh" and "./configure" on it.

GNU Autoconf is usually pretty decent about telling you what deps you need.

Other than that, I can't help as I have not yet tried to compile/install Gaim 2 CVS.

[akurashy]

sudo apt-get install mono
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
mono is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.

it looks like i have most of the other mono stuff installed, is there another dep i could be missing?

Try.
sudo rm /usr/local/lib/gaim/mono.*

if you look at the thread there was some solutions in the other pages

[Jingo]

Should this package have webcam support?
Can't seem to find it!?

[akurashy]

Should this package have webcam support?
Can't seem to find it!?

Not yet, they haven't added it =/

[kakashi]

bump

[masingerz]

Just thought I would throw this out there. I have created a few debs (http://people.uleth.ca/~dave.brady/debs/)...

Gaim 2.0.0 Beta 1 (Features idle based upon X usage, rather than Gaim usage, and Synaptic does not try to "upgrade" to 1.5)
gaim-xmms-remote (A useful plugin for controlling xmms from gaim, or showing your current song to your friends)
gaim-guifications (Toaster popups for gaim events)
VLC 0.8.5 (Features VC1 support, so it should play most WMV9s)

Just keep in mind that these are very very unofficial packages, and might not work, and might have undesirable side-effects. But they work great on the 3 PCs I've tried them.

These are all 32-bit, as I have yet to actually upgrade to 64-bit Ubuntu.

Please help me installing these features.

By the Way I use BMPX: will it work?

-masingerz

[hen3rz]

Great tutorial! thanks heaps!

Is it weird that the auto updater keeps telling me to update to gaim 1.5 even though i have this installed, or is this normal?

[christooss]

Please help me installing these features.

By the Way I use BMPX: will it work?

-masingerz


I think you cannot install those futures beacause thay have to be packaged to 2.0 version.

I think bmpx won't work.

[christooss]

Ups now I saw. Click on Greys link

http://people.uleth.ca/~dave.brady/debs/

Download the debs and than where they are on your computer open the terminal and instal them with:

dpkg -i deb_package.deb

[hamil]

Thanks guys!

this was awsome!
Running Gaim 2.0.0CVS2.1 now, and it works just perfect!

Anyone have any idea if it will be possible for me to set a profile picture for my MSN account in Gaim in the future?

[Stereotypical Rage]

Just thought I would throw this out there. I have created a few debs (http://people.uleth.ca/~dave.brady/debs/)...

Gaim 2.0.0 Beta 1 (Features idle based upon X usage, rather than Gaim usage, and Synaptic does not try to "upgrade" to 1.5)
gaim-xmms-remote (A useful plugin for controlling xmms from gaim, or showing your current song to your friends)
gaim-guifications (Toaster popups for gaim events)
VLC 0.8.5 (Features VC1 support, so it should play most WMV9s)

Just keep in mind that these are very very unofficial packages, and might not work, and might have undesirable side-effects. But they work great on the 3 PCs I've tried them.

These are all 32-bit, as I have yet to actually upgrade to 64-bit Ubuntu.
sudo dpkg -i gaim2.0.0-2beta1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 92504 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gaim 1:1.5.0-1ubuntu3 (using gaim2.0.0-2beta1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gaim ...
dpkg: error processing gaim2.0.0-2beta1_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/local/bin/gaim', which is also in package gaim-2.0.0
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
gaim2.0.0-2beta1_i386.deb
======================
They don't work for me. 32 bit Ubuntu.:cry:

[MBro]

Try removing the original ubuntu 1.5 gaim package first. I think that might help you.

[WishMaster]

Beta 2: The Sequel to Beta

January 24th, 2006 - 5:08PM EST (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/index.php?id=166)
We're basically refining crude oil into a usable product. Only instead of refining crude oil, we're making Gaim better. But it's really the same thing. Really.
Please grab beta 2 (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235&package_id=253&release_id=387865) and let us know what you think. With any luck we won't need to make any major changes, and Gaim 2.0.0 final will be out before you can prove the theory of special relativity.

Someone build me a .deb :D

[HJThis]

Hello,To all

Well i don't know why but it's the first time
i am having problems installing this here is
the error am gething.

[WishMaster]

Dude.... this is the GAIM-thread, not AMSN :p

Anyway --> http://amsn.sourceforge.net/linux-downloads.php
Download the Ubuntu-deb
Open a terminal, cd to the directory where you downloaded the .deb and type:
sudo dpkg -i <amsn-filename-deb>

[HJThis]

Hi,WishMaster

Huh good god i have to get off the CRACK bad
i been using the info for gaim to try & install amsn
so this is why i no longer have gaim.

please SLAP me

Thank you

[MighMoS]

I've built some new packages for gaim's new beta. These packages preserve ubuntu's existing 3 package structure for gaim (base, data, and dev), so this should alleviate problems of Ubuntu telling you its out of date.

I'm unable to attach them right now, but they are available at http://mighmos.org/packages.php .

Also, if you've used my previous clearlooks theme (2.7.1), please upgrade, as it had a bug that would sometime crash Gaim in the accounts menu.

As always, not to break the GPL, source packages are available on my website.

[zachtib]

it installed great, any word on if/when then gaim-vv features will be added?

[MighMoS]

Sorry, I meant to talk about that. Support for it is in the official Gaim branch, but I wasn't able to get it to install correctly. I'll look into it over the next few days, but basically over some burocratic desicions, they went with linphone instead of gstreamer.

[shanghaipi]

I got this:

gaim depends on libdbus-1-1 (>= 0.36.2); however:
Package libdbus-1-1 is not installed.
gaim depends on libdbus-glib-1-1 (>= 0.36.2); however:
Package libdbus-glib-1-1 is not installed.

Hmmm...

[Grey]

Okay... this time it just doesn't work for me. I get this when I try to run beta2.


*** glibc detected *** realloc(): invalid next size: 0x083afdc8 ***
Aborted


The 0x083afdc8 part changes every time I try to run it. The really interesting thing though is that if I keep trying to run the package repeatedly... sometimes it works. It just takes a lot of tries.

This happens both with the deb I just compiled and the deb posted by MighMos (Thanks a lot btw... that's a really nice deb). I have also tried installing mono and libmono... to no effect.

[arnieboy]

gaim 2.0 beta 2 (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) has been released. the official announcement came 3 minutes back.. u guys oughta check it out.

[makisupa123]

I've built some new packages for gaim's new beta. These packages preserve ubuntu's existing 3 package structure for gaim (base, data, and dev), so this should alleviate problems of Ubuntu telling you its out of date.

I'm unable to attach them right now, but they are available at http://mighmos.org/packages.php .

Also, if you've used my previous clearlooks theme (2.7.1), please upgrade, as it had a bug that would sometime crash Gaim in the accounts menu.

As always, not to break the GPL, source packages are available on my website.


Your deb worked perfectly. Thanks Alot!!

[Jingo]

Will webcam support be part of version 2.0 ?
Does beta2 have it? Guess not...

Linux really lacks webcam support in the IM's !!

[arnieboy]

if u want webcam support on MSN, try amsn 0.95. there is a howto running for that in this forum.

[MighMoS]

These packages were built on Ubuntu Breezy. I've heard they don't work on Dapper, because of dbus changes. If anyone gets them working, a voice on how would be appriciated, and I don't have enough spare space for an exter dapper installation.

Will webcam support be part of version 2.0 ?
Does beta2 have it? Guess not...
I don't know if --enable-vv enables both voice and video (as one would think) or just voice. But as I've stated earlier, I couldn't get it to resolve the dependencies.

[Chrissss]

Did nobody read the message on the Gaim Homepage ;)

Gaim 2.0.0 beta 2 does not include voice or video ("vv") support for any protocols. We've done some work toward vv compatibility for Google Talk, but it isn't ready for the general public yet. It is unlikely this will change for the final release of Gaim 2.0.0, but vv will be a primary focus for the next major release of Gaim after that.

So, most likely there won't be video support in gaim2...

CU
Christoph

[christooss]

Drapper package would be nice. Builded frombeta2 ofcourse :)

[Logic*]

Okay... this time it just doesn't work for me. I get this when I try to run beta2.


*** glibc detected *** realloc(): invalid next size: 0x083afdc8 ***
Aborted



I get the same... any suggestions?

[Rev. Nathan]

What do I do in the ./configure to enable sound, spellcheck, and all the goodies as seen in the .debs?

Anyone want to share the command?

[Grey]

What do I do in the ./configure to enable sound, spellcheck, and all the goodies as seen in the .debs?

Anyone want to share the command?

You just need to have the dependencies. Try "sudo apt-get build-dep gaim". That should cover most of it... I don't honestly remember what the exact packages are that you need.