GAIM in SuSE 9.1

DeusExLinux · 09-23-2004, 06:24 PM

Oh yes..
I had GAIM installed..

I meant I had tons of dependency issues when trying to install the madwifi and whatnot for my wireless card..

Sorry, Wasn't specific enough.

But yeah.. yum was great... had i had been able to connect to the net

chaosego · 09-23-2004, 09:55 PM

Those two packages worked perfectly, thanks.

Quote:

Originally posted by RebootKid

Open up a shell, and type sux and type in your root password. (this is similar to a su -, however it allows for Xwindows to work correctly. It's a weird Suse thing)

I'm a little curious about this sux command though, anymore info? hehe.

rm6990 · 09-23-2004, 10:13 PM

If you don't use the sux command, you cannot open gui windows from a terminal emulator where you have su'd into root. Another way to enable the gui for a terminal window running as root is to issue these commands to log in as root.

xhost +localhost
su -
root password

sux is just the short way of doing this.

chaosego · 09-23-2004, 11:44 PM

Ahhh, thanks.
I was curious why my

#nedit blahblah.txt &

wasn't working. hehe.

nicksmart234 · 09-27-2004, 06:10 PM

i have just one question
how do u get Yast to install gaim on SuSE 8.1

DeusExLinux · 09-27-2004, 07:25 PM

You can't do it through conqurer??

I would guess that the easiest way would then be to do it through the shell...

9.1 does it through Knoquerer, al ya gotta do is click on it, and then click on install with YaST.

NoS Sr50 · 10-31-2004, 02:12 PM

2 of the packages you told me to install I cant...

Code:

linux:/home/robert/Documents/Downloads # rpm -ivh red-carpet-2.4.1-0.ximian.9.2.i586.rpm
warning: red-carpet-2.4.1-0.ximian.9.2.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID fd4fe9e9
error: Failed dependencies:
        scrollkeeper is needed by red-carpet-2.4.1-0.ximian.9.2
        /usr/bin/python is needed by red-carpet-2.4.1-0.ximian.9.2

Code:

linux:/home/robert/Documents/Downloads # rpm -ivh rug-2.4.1-0.ximian.9.1.i586.rpm
warning: rug-2.4.1-0.ximian.9.1.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID fd4fe9e9
error: Failed dependencies:
        python >= 2.2 is needed by rug-2.4.1-0.ximian.9.1
linux:/home/robert/Documents/Downloads #

The others installed fine, so how do I fix this?

Suse 9.1

RebootKid · 10-31-2004, 03:37 PM

Well,
Not having tested this myself, looks like you need python and scroll keeper.

Here's a link to scroll keeper
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/SuSE-Linu...14-73.i586.rpm
and python:
ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/SuSE-Linu....3-85.i586.rpm

NoS Sr50 · 10-31-2004, 05:16 PM

Code:

linux:/home/robert/Documents # rpm -ivh scrollkeeper-0.3.14-73.i586.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        docbook_4 is needed by scrollkeeper-0.3.14-73
        sgml-skel is needed by scrollkeeper-0.3.14-73

more stuff is missing

RebootKid · 10-31-2004, 11:40 PM

please give me the output from a uname -a

rollo · 11-01-2004, 09:07 PM

Getting back to the original subject...

To successfully install Gaim on Suse 9.1 you need to install a few dependencies first.

1. Go to http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-...Network%2Fgaim and install the dependencies in the order given. BUT - DON'T install the 'gnutls' RPM from this site - it won't work. If you do / have done already, uninstall it with rpm -e

2. One or two of these installations will probably in turn require dependencies installed before running. You can find these by Googling them. 'liblzo.so.1' is at http://rpmseek.com/rpm/lzo-1.08-104....:0:0:0:1501905

3. Get the all-important 'gnutls' from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mmj/9.....8-26.i586.rpm This version of the file is on the DVD version of Suse 9.1 but not the CD apparently. Other versions of it on the net do not work (there seems to be some legal issue here - see http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-l...-Jun/0299.html for details).

The Gaim installation (at first site above) should now finally work.

Quote:

Originally posted by RebootKid
Being a Suse 9.1 user myself, I too loathe Kopete.
I'm using gaim.

Here's what I found usefull:
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-...etwork%2Fgaim/

He's got a few dependancies that need to be taken care of, but he's got all the packages on his site.
standard rpm -ivh %package is all I needed.

Wesociety · 11-08-2004, 04:14 PM

=-O Ug, I'm trying to install GAIM now and ran into dependacy issues (SuSE 9.1) .
Looks like it's time to play grab the dependancy packages.

Thanks for all the info in this thread.

Wesociety · 11-09-2004, 11:30 AM

Ok, I tried to follow rebootkids' advice about installing redcarpet, however, when I type in sux and then put in my root pw, I received the following error msg:

hostname: Unknown host
hostname: Unknown host
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "/unix:0.0" in "extract" command

What does this mean? How do I correct this so that I can use sux and install redcarpet ? Thanks!

Wesociety · 11-09-2004, 02:57 PM

edit: nevermind, looks like I can install the packages now. I'd still like to know what the above message means though

@NoS Sr50, you can install sgml-skel , docbook_4, scrollkeeper, and python all from YaST very easily!