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.

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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