I am new at this. I am just getting started. I am trying to get Yahoo messenger to work on my Mandrake 9.1. I keep seeing a lot of stuff about Gain but I can't get it to work. I have just installed. I am so tired of the blue screen of death, so I want to get this working. I don't know how to run the "console". Is there anyone that can help me get this going? Thanks, I appreciate the help!!

go here http://navi.cx/~mike/autopackage-pdb/index.php then download gaim auto package, and click on the console and type sh gaim-1.2.1.x86.package, and it should ask you if you want to install it and type y and then it should ask you to enter your root password, after that it will ask you if you want to install gaim and ask for the root password, enter it and it should install gaim.

edit: made a lot of mistakes, fixed now.

Ok here is what it said.....


Checking for required C library versions ... OK
Checking for GTK+ user interface toolkit ... OK
Checking for Audio File Library ... OK
Checking for libao cross platform audio library ... OK
Checking for GtkSpell Spell Checking Library ... failed
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Error: Could not find 'GtkSpell Spell Checking Library'. Try using the native package manager for Mandrake Linux (urpmi) to install a package with similar name to 'gtkspell'.

Error: Unable to prepare package Gaim Internet Messenger.

Any ideas??
Thanks again!!!!!!
Jim

Do as root "urpmi gtkspell".

I don't quite understand. How do you "do as"? I appreciate the help!
Thanks!!

Just run the commands "urpmi gtkspell" in a console as root.

I think he means, as in the cmd.

In a console (xterm etc).

su
<enter root password>
command you wish to run as root
exit

I forgot about urpmi. Try and do this at the command line instead, since this would be a native package for mandrake.

OK now it says



The following packages contain gtkspell: libgtkspell110 libgtkspell 110-devel

ok as root do

urpmi libgtkspell110

It's worth noting that in future, autopackage will hopefully be able to do this for you. For now yes you need to install libgtkspell yourself.

You should also ask the Gaim developers to make gtkspell a "weak" dependency, which means it'll be used if it's available otherwise it'll just switch off spelling checking. There are tools available which make this easy for them, but they refuse to use them

so write a patch use that to build the autopackage and let the upstream tree make thier own choices on it they want to use it