I search on the rpmfind.net and tried to install all the dependencies or the file it, need but it seems that list go on increasing or independencies.... I don't why I could not do I... I waited my nearly 3-4 hours on this but could not get work.

I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean..

1) You successfully installed the necessary libgtkspell and libtk8.3, and you now have another different error message when you try to install gaim?

or...

2)You can't install libtk8.3.so and libgtkspell because they depend on other packages?


If 2) then you need to search for the other dependencies, and install them, whatever they are.


It would help if you post the error messages.

yep, jharris' solution works. nice job man. and thanks for the tip.

(geez, why wasn't this simple workaround included in the details link for gaim at linuxpackages.net?)

I added a link to this thread there.

listen to jharris, thats what i did 2

Okay, I can't seem to get this to work either. Had no problems with 0.7 ... what was I thinking trying to upgrade?

Anyway, didn't have Mozilla installed, so I did that. Of course, it's version 1.5 if that makes any difference.

the configure script by default has the --enable-nss=yes tag added on, so i simply ran ./configure

it says each and every time:
SSL Library/Libraries......... : None

Tried rerunning ./configure with the tags set to enable, but I got the same result.

I don't have a /usr/lib/mozilla-xx type directory. It seems that the shared objects are located within the /usr/local/mozilla directory. Out of desperation, I tried adding that to my ldconf file (which is starting to get silly long from the other things I've installed)

I also tried the whole upgrade gaim and the two packages as suggested, which seemed not to resolve the problem either. It still says, "Gaim was unable to load your plugin. The required plugin MSN was unable to load."

Where it seems to be getting stuck is here: (with several screens of plugins being probed above)
"prefs: Reading /root/.gaim/prefs.xml
prefs: Finished reading /jillande/.gaim/prefs.xml
pounces: Error parsing /jillande/.gaim/pounces.xml
status: Error parsing /jillande/.gaim/status.xml"

Initially, it said that it couldn't read the file, I tried just creating a file to see if it would be able to write it, but now it has this other error (same exact file).

Ideas? This is on Slack8.1.

Is there a way for me to simply compile MSN support out of gaim? I don't use it and this error is annoying me, I would rather remove support than fix it.

Just install GNUTLS and that will give you the proper SSL support MSNP9 requires for login. Without SSL, you will have no msn.

Hi I just installed redhat 9 two days ago, and I can't log into MSN using gaim. I downloaded version 0.72, and configured it, ran make, make install, and gaim intalled successfully.

When i try to log into MSN it says SSL support is needed for MSN. Please install it. How do i do this? Is there some parameter I should be entering when running the config script. After i run that it always says "SSL Library/Libraries......... : None" How do i fix this?

did you even read my post before your post? I said INSTALL GNUTLS and that will give you proper SSL support.

besides in the slackware-current-tree there is now a gaim 0.71 with SSL linked to Mozilla and even MSN works now.

when i try do
./configure --enable-nss=yes

....
UI Library.................... : GTK 2.x
SSL Library/Libraries......... : None
.....


but then the make command does not work

................
gcc: /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [gaim] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gaim-0.71/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gaim-0.71/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gaim-0.71'
make: *** [all] Error 2



what are files i have to install to be able to compile it with nss support?, for suse 8.2

thanks
A

I realize this thread started a long time ago, but I just had this problem over the past few days, and tried many of the suggested resolutions to no avail. Finally, I found the solution that worked for me (running Fedora Core 1). Instead of installing gaim with the rpm package, I compiled it from the tar.gz file, and during the compile, used the following:
Where /usr/lib/mozilla is the directory where libnss3.so is located in the Mozilla directories.

Hope this helps someone.

Rich

sorry wrong post