I have been using SuSE 9.3 for around 3 weeks. For quite a while I have been able to use Kopete without a problem, after having to fix some glitches.

Well, now I have a problem: Although I am online and running fine, and Kopete is running, and shows me to be connected to AOL messenger service, my brother and sister thought that I was off line and "gone away to the cleaners". In fact, my brother has been away on Vacation and got really worried because he couldn't IM me (they refuse to try other IM services or use applications such as Trillian which would mean if one service wasn't working others would in Windoze). It seems that I am not visible or not actually connected even though my kopete shows me to be.

I haven't tested with GAIM or AIM yet, but I am showing connected and fine with GAIM right now, at 3:41AM on 8/18/05.

I don't know of anything that I have done do mess with the SuSE Firewall, but if there are settings in there that I need to check, could someone tell me how to check for some of them, I looked at the firewall in YaST and it is darmed confusing for someone like me. I haven't gotten that far in my readings yet.

So does anyone have any suggestions as to what it might be or what to check for? My brother was pretty panicked and was ready to cut his vacation short because he couldn't IM me. Family, God bless them!

Also, thank you very much for being here and for reading my post and offering any help or suggestions. I have had to struggle with every app that I have tried to install. I don't know if it is SuSE or just growing pains, but I don't mind too much, I like to learn, if only I can get stuff to work in the end!

I'm not sure what your problem is, but if it works fine with GAIM then I don't think it would be a firewall problem as both Kopete and GAIM are running with the same firewall settings.

If it works in GAIM why not just use that instead of Kopete? (sorry, I'm biased, I think GAIM's much better!)

Update Kopete from guru rpm site
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/

Thanks, but I have version 0.10.2 which is newer than what is listed in this directory/page:

http://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/s.../9.3/RPMS/src/

That is the section for SuSE 9.3. There was no RPM non src version listed under the 9.3 section
listed.

Oh well.

Thanks for you input, at least I know about that site and I can add it to my Sources list.

BTW, is there a command line, well, command that will tell me what version of a given program it is. The reason I ask is that not all programs are like Kopete, and work with a window in KDE that has a help menu item that has a link "about Kopete". Some programs/commands lack that, and I would like to know how you guys discover the version of software that you have.

TIA

Too bad about Kopete, it is better looking than GAIM as far as the front end and options, although I do see some plugins for GAIM, just not ones that I want. I wish that I could webcam / voice chat with my people in Linux (Yahoo/MSN) but no app for Linux does that. There is a version of GAIM that is 1/2 way there, but...

To see the version of installed RPM's you can use the "rpm" command. So, for example if I want to see what version of gaim I am running I usually do

rpm -qa gaim

and it returns the full name of the rpm including the version. You can do a lot more with the "rpm" command so reading "man rpm" could be a good iea too.

No, misunderstood!
I also had newer version that didn't work. What I did was:
removed Kopete corresponding package (I think kdenetwork3...), added guru rpm site to media source. Installed package from guru. logout, login. Now it works fine.
Try it. What have you got to lose if it doesn't work anyway...