Pidgin 2.0.0

rigelan · 05-06-2007, 08:20 PM

has anybody tried this new version from the current slackware directory?

I tried it, and it doesn't seem to want to find my MSN connection. I had this problem with gaim 1.50 before, but fixed it by adding /usr/lib/firefox to my ld path, so that gaim could find the appropriate ssl libraries.

But I think pidgin either doesn't know the libraries are there, uses different libraries, or has been compiled without ssl support. Got any clues?

Wynd · 05-06-2007, 09:53 PM

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...gin.SlackBuild

This is the script that was used to build it. Maybe you can find what you're looking for in there?

You can always build it manually

drumz · 05-06-2007, 09:57 PM

In the slackbuild change --enable-nss=no to --enable-nss=yes. Works for me now.

Edit: I just noticed --enable-nss=no appears twice. Make sure to change the last one and/or remove one of them.

Edit2: Also make sure you have seamonkey installed.

Alien_Hominid · 05-07-2007, 02:00 AM

Do you get notification errors?

erklaerbaer · 05-07-2007, 07:54 AM

please read the changelog, when using -current.
pidgin/gaim is no longer build against seamonkey, but against mozilla-nss. you'll have to install this package.

Nylex · 05-07-2007, 07:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drumz

In the slackbuild change --enable-nss=no to --enable-nss=yes. Works for me now.

Edit: I just noticed --enable-nss=no appears twice. Make sure to change the last one and/or remove one of them.

Edit2: Also make sure you have seamonkey installed.

I thought MSN would work with either NSS or GnuTLS? That build script shows Pidgin is built with GnuTLS support.

dhubsith · 05-07-2007, 08:24 AM

I got MSN working with Pidgin 2.0.0 and Slackware Current.

You need these packages from the n folder to use gnutils: cyrus-sasl, gnutils, libgcrypt, libgpg-error, openldap-client, openssl.

You don't need seamonkey unless you want to go that route. It takes a lot of space.

Hope this helps.

rigelan · 05-07-2007, 07:03 PM

I did read the changelog. I didn't see any reference to pidgin(or gaim) now using gnutls. Although I have nothing against it, and think it will work fine.

I did just what dhubsith recommended, and it works great. I might just take the /usr/lib/firefox path designation out of my /etc/ld.so.conf too.

Thanks for taking the time.