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Old 11-05-2003, 07:38 PM   #1
tv_is_drowning
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a few n00b questions...


hi there, i have a few questions that i'm sure are probably really dumb, but i'm not getting very far with odd things at the moment so i don't really know what else to do.
ok first thing, i'm having a fair amount of trouble with dependencies when installing rpms.take for example when installing dcgui-qt-0.2.20-1.i386.rpm (direct connect client gui) i get the following dependency errors:

dcgui-qt 0.2.20-1 conflict
ilbfontconfig.so.1 not available (this one pops up a lot)
libpng.so.3 not available
libXft.so.2 not available
libXrandr.so.2 not available

they do go into more detail but i'm too tired to go into that.

the other thing i was wondering, although i'm not sure if this is the best place to ask, i'm having trouble using the msn protocol in gaim. i've loaded the plugin but when i try and sign on it says the protocol isn't supported. icq protocol works fine.

thanks a lot!
 
Old 11-05-2003, 07:56 PM   #2
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I would check to see if you have those rpms on installation cd
because ur missing those packages that program needs
as for as gaim i dont use that i us amsn went to gaims website
i looks like if you have .71 there shouldnt be problem
 
Old 11-05-2003, 08:13 PM   #3
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For your dependency issues install apt-rpm ( a rpm port of debians apt-get ). Don't know much about Suse but it works well with RedHat.

[root@localhost root]# apt-get install gaim
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gaim
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 2350kB of archives.
After unpacking 5433kB of additional disk space will be used.
 
Old 11-06-2003, 03:09 AM   #4
tv_is_drowning
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when installing apt i get the same dependency issues


no such luck with amsn either

i'm doing well so far!
lol
 
  


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