Suse 9.0

[mdemers883]

Yet another question from this linux n00b. I am currently running GAIM .67 which came with Suse. I would like to upgrade to the new relase that is at sourceforge. I noticed that there isn't a tar or rpm file for it for Suse only binary. I have never compiiled anything in linux yet so I'm a bit nervous about how to go about it. If I remember correctly I selected the packages that contained compilers when I installed Suse. My question is how would I go about this? Do I need to remove my previous version of GAIM (if so how do I do that) or is there a way to upgrade after I compile (how do I compile) Thanks for having patience with me guys, you are helping me learn each day. Thanks for any help.

 

 

Mark

[tyme]

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=10615

 

the second half of that FAQ should help w/the tar.gz files (which are for compiling from source).

[mdemers883]

I just checked out source forge again, looks liike they updated some files, they didn't have the source in tar.gz last time, I'lll get on it when i get home from class :D

 

 

Mark

[jlc]

or you can use this

 

http://www.usr-local-bin.org/gaim.php

 

 

made for suse 9.0 rpm

[mdemers883]

I tried using the tar.gz file from sourceforge.net, I extracted it just fine. I then proceeded to do a "./configure" and here was the output at the end:

 

 

 

checking for pkg-config... no
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** A new enough version of pkg-config was not found.
*** See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
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/.

 

I see it tells me where I can get Glib. I did some more reaearch and it said that all that stuff should be on CD and that downloading from the net would be a last resort. All I have for SuSE 9.0 cd's is the live cd and the ftp boot. So, do I need to download this from the net or is there some way to snag it from one of those suse disks? Sorry if this seems like a very trivial matter, but I am really trying hard to get things to work without having to ask for too much help. Thanks for any hlep you can give.

 

 

Mark

[mdemers883]

or you can use this

 

http://www.usr-local-bin.org/gaim.php

 

 

made for suse 9.0 rpm

I tried that but without much luck, looks like I need more software to be able to do it:

 

linux:/home/luser # rpm -Uvh /home/luser/gaim-0.75-100.SuSE.ulb.2.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
       gtkspell is needed by gaim-0.75-100.SuSE.ulb.2
       libgtkspell.so.0 is needed by gaim-0.75-100.SuSE.ul

[jlc]

When you installed, did you install gnome and gnome devel packages? if not, go into yast2, install software and check off on gnome and it should install from ftp i think since you used the ftp install method. I'm guissing here, but that should work.

[mdemers883]

When you installed, did you install gnome and gnome devel packages?  if not, go into yast2, install software and check off on gnome and it should install from ftp i think since you used the ftp install method.  I'm guissing here, but that should work.

I downloaded those packages and tried to install but it didn't work....then I figured I might need to su to root so I did and it went smoothly :D I then launched GAIM and checked the version and it was 0.75 :D Thanks for the help, I have so many questions since I'm a n00b that when I finally get around to solving a problem it's a big relief, thanks again guys B)

 

Mark