Gaim Issue

[ZeroX]

I managed to successfully compile gaim 1.0.3... but when I try to launch MSN i get the old "Blah blah, SSL Support is needed. Please install a supported SSL library"

Anyone know what lib i need?

[jdong]

remind me why you're installing GAIM from source?

[ZeroX]

Because the latest when I apt-get is 1.0.0 and when I try to install guifications plugin it cannot find gaim.pc (a bug I was told in #ubuntu on freenode irc). Compiling gaim from source would not only give me the latest version but the plugin I need would compile and work.

[jdong]

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.0.3-1.dsc

Looking at Hoary's GAIM 1.0.3:


Build-Depends: bzip2, cdbs, debhelper (>= 4.1.0), libgtk2.0-dev, autotools-dev, libgnutls11-dev (>= 1.0.16-5), libperl-dev (>= 5.8.1), tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev, libao-dev, libaudiofile-dev, libgtkspell-dev, libltdl3-dev, libstartup-notification0-dev, xutils, libzephyr-dev, automake1.8
Build-Conflicts: tcl8.3-dev, tk8.3-dev


Make sure you have all the Build-Depends libraries installed.

[jdong]

beaming over to programming forum.

[Roptaty]

Because the latest when I apt-get is 1.0.0 and when I try to install guifications plugin it cannot find gaim.pc (a bug I was told in #ubuntu on freenode irc). Compiling gaim from source would not only give me the latest version but the plugin I need would compile and work.

I had the same problem, but I "solved" it by using these steps:

apt-get source gaim
sudo apt-get build-dep gaim
cd into gaim-1.0.3/debian
edit rules and comment out these lines: rm -rf debian/gaim/usr/include and rm -rf debian/gaim/usr/lib/pkgconfig
cd ..
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot (sudo apt-get install fakeroot if you dont have it installed)
dpkg -i ../gaim*.deb and enjoy your own deb package.


Now you can install the guifications plugin. :)

[Hikaru79]

Strange.... I just upgrade gaim with Synaptic and never even touched my GUIfications install; it just automatically carried over, I guess, because GUIfications is working fine with my new 1.1.0. :D

[muuseas]

hi,
and i had problem with gaim and ssl. i got help there:

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq-ssl.php#q14

$ sudo apt-get remove gaim

1. You need to download the latest Gaim source.
2. You need to install the GNU TLS library development files:

$ sudo apt-get install libgnutls11-dev (for breezy)

3. Compile Gaim:

$ ./configure --enable-gnutls=yes
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install