anyone got gaim to install in suse?

yowwww · 04-14-2003, 08:33 PM

if so, how was it done?

EDIT - SEE UPDATED POST BY ME BELOW

rshaw · 04-14-2003, 09:06 PM

yast2>install/remove software>search for gaim,click box next to gaim, click install, put disks in when it asks.

yowwww · 04-14-2003, 10:00 PM

I only have the first cd

so where can I get suse 8.1 rpm's?

rshaw · 04-14-2003, 11:20 PM

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.1/suse/i586/

rshaw · 04-14-2003, 11:30 PM

you may want to try this since you don't have all the disks, it will be much easier to install apps and have all the depends taken care of.
http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ . once installed you can do a apt-get install gaim and it will take care of everything. or get the synaptic package so you can point and click the software you want. i've been using it for a few months and it works so much better than yast online update.

yowwww · 04-15-2003, 12:27 AM

k, will check that out, i use it for red hat already so i am familiar with how to use it
thanks!

yowwww · 05-13-2003, 12:55 PM

ok, now I have suse 8.2 - it comes with gaim 0.59.8 - what I want to know is how to upgrade it to 0.62 - I have installed tons of software for different distros so I don't need a how to, but the problem with this example is that there are so many dependencies and they keep getting worse. I'll get one (gkspell) and then a whole bunch more will come up.
I might try apt-get to see what it can do, but it does't always work either.
Tips appreciated.

well. no go on the apt4rpm (although I really like the idea of it):

Code:

 # rpm -ivh apt4rpm-0.64.4-1.noarch.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        apt-server is needed by apt4rpm-0.64.4-1
        perl-XML-LibXML is needed by apt4rpm-0.64.4-1

aherm · 05-17-2003, 11:34 AM

You may try to install these package:

apt-0.5.4cnc9-1cl
synaptic-0.26-rb1
apt-devel-0.5.4cnc9-1cl
or the newer one for SuSE

Search it here:
www.rpmseek.com

Have fun :-)

Bionic_Redneck · 07-07-2003, 12:51 PM

I just switch over form mandrake to Suse 8.2 yesterday and I did find rpms that would work to upgrade to Gaim .64

you need gaim-0.64-SuSE.ulb.2.i586.rpm and gtkspell-2.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1.i586.rpm. I found them at http://www.usr-local-bin.org/gaim.php

aherm · 07-07-2003, 02:50 PM

If you installed apt for SuSE do:

apt-get update
apt-get install gaim

I like Kopete more than Gaim.
IMHO, Kopete is better and easier.

zackarya · 07-07-2003, 10:24 PM

Quote:

yast2>install/remove software>search for gaim,click box next to gaim, click install, put disks in when it asks.

Or at your prompt just type

yast2 -i "program name"

Comes in handy.