pkgtool and gaim??
 

hi,

i downloaded the new version of gaim from linuxpackages, i downloaded it into the /tmp
and from pkgtool i chose the /tmp file and it found gaim and installed it apparently.

but when i type gaim in console i get:

gaim: error while loading shared libraries: libstartup-notification-1.so.0: cacnnot open shared object file: No such file or directory

any suggestions on how to fix this?

Yep ... compile gaim from source, or read (and follow)
the dependency-description of the maintainer of the
gaim package you downloaded ;)


Cheers,
Tink

if is would be as easy to do for me as you make it sound i would have done it. :(

anyway, i am trying to read some stuff about and find out whats wrong.

if anyone knows how to fix this problem let me know please.


thanks in advance

If it's a bzip2 tarball:
tar xvjf gaim*.tar.bz2
cd gaim*
./configure && make && make install

If it's a gzip tarball:
tar xvzf gaim*.tar.gz
cd gaim*
./configure && make && make install


Not hard at all :P


Cheers,
Tink

thanks thinkster

On using the source to find dependencies, you might not need to install, just a ./configure because that's where all (or most) of the dependency checking will go. Plus, it will save you time compiling.

WAIT! You don't need to compile...startup-notification is a package on Slackware CD 2 in the Gnome directory.

I'd guess you're running slack 9.1.

In 9.1, that library you're missing was in the gnome package directory, which caused some problems... People were confused, as XFCE also requires it the way it was compiled, but without the second CD, you couldn't use XFCE out of the box... It's also a requirement for the version of Gaim you downloaded.

In 10, it's been moved to the libraries package set, so it's installed with just the first CD.

--Shade

Actually I run 10 at home. :o I must've remembered it being in /gnome from when I installed 9.1 for a friend.

Either way, it solves the problem at hand. ;)