i have pidgin on my computer, i followed the instructions on the gfire website to do it from source but its not working.
how do i install this?

Checked your dependencies?

http://gfireproject.org/faq/#dependencies

If you don't have them it won't compile right... if it compiles right, loads in Pidgin and so on, try running Pidgin from Konsole and looking at what happens when you load and try to use the plugin.

how do i get the dependencies, i dont understand this?

You seem to be new to Slackware, so I'd start with this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackwa...age_management

You might also want to install slapt-get ( http://software.jaos.org/ ) and use that to get the dependencies listed earlier.

However, you may already have those dependencies installed. Are the gfire sources compiling at all? Did you use svn or a tarball to get the sources? Which instructions on their site are you following?

root@caramba:~/Downloads# slapt-get
slapt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

the above tells me something has gone very wrong.

i use the installation guide on the gfire faq
it is compiling but theres nothing about the plugin on my pidgin

Okay. So it compiles correctly and you get all the way through `make install` but the plugin doesn't appear in Pidgin's plugin list? That could mean that it installed to the wrong place. I remember Slackware sometimes needing a different --prefix option in the configure phase.

what about the slaptget error?
when i configure i do this:
cd tothegfiredirectory
./configure --prefix=/usr
i get this:
checking for gaim... Package gaim was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gaim.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gaim' found
configure: error: Library requirements (gaim) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

i think this has to do when i was trying to install some other dependency and i had to change the package_config_path and i did it wrong?
how do i reset this environment variable to the default or correct path?

i think i must have changed something i ought not have because i keep getting errors from slaptget telling me that it cannot open shared object file

It means you don't have needed dependencies for that, either.

Start up pkgtool and make sure curl, glib, gtk, and pidgin are installed.

Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.27.3' but version of GLib is 2.24.2
what does this mean

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

how do i adjust this?

i managed to install glib and sucessfuly configure gtk but when i did make install on gtk it told me this:

Working on: /root/Downloads/gtk+-2.24.4/docs/tutorial/gtk-tut.sgml
mv: cannot stat `gtk-tut': No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory `html/images': No such file or directory
cp: target `html/images' is not a directory
make[2]: *** [html] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Downloads/gtk+-2.24.4/docs/tutorial'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Downloads/gtk+-2.24.4/docs'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

and then i ignored that because it said tutorial, so it was not very important concerning dependencies, and went ahead and tried to install gfire and it gave me this while i did configure command:

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for gaim... Package gaim was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gaim.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gaim' found
configure: error: Library requirements (gaim) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.

i think i set some environment variable wrong or something but i have read others that told me to do the export command to change it to /usr/bin/pkg-config

also slapt-get still gives me the libgpgme.so.11 error
so then i tried and did the things listed here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/error-while-loading-shared-libraries-libgpgme-so-11-a-514013/
and it still gives me this error.
i installed the tgz files for gpgme errors package with pkg tool and it always gives me this:

/sbin/ldconfig: libraries libgthread-2.0.so.0 and libgthread-2.0.so.0.2400.2 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.
/sbin/ldconfig: libraries libgobject-2.0.so.0.2400.2 and libgobject-2.0.so.0.2800.6 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.
/sbin/ldconfig: libraries libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.2 and libglib-2.0.so.0.2800.6 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.
/sbin/ldconfig: libraries libgio-2.0.so.0.2400.2 and libgio-2.0.so.0.2800.6 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.
bash-4.1# slapt-get
slapt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libgpgme.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

it does similar thing with the actual gpgme.

what do i have to do now?
im just tired =(

also, i think gtk gets messed up after each restart because my firefox looks different.
gtk has to do with gui correct?

also this is what comes up when i run ldconfig:

bash-4.1# ldconfig
ldconfig: libraries libgthread-2.0.so.0 and libgthread-2.0.so.0.2400.2 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.
ldconfig: libraries libgobject-2.0.so.0.2400.2 and libgobject-2.0.so.0.2800.6 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.
ldconfig: libraries libglib-2.0.so.0.2400.2 and libglib-2.0.so.0.2800.6 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.
ldconfig: libraries libgio-2.0.so.0.2400.2 and libgio-2.0.so.0.2800.6 in directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.

how do i fix this type mismatch? i think that is what is causing the problem with slaptget

also how do i verify which of the programs are installed on my computer (to see if i compiled and installed them correctly)?

anyone have any ideas on how i can fix this?
if not, i have no idea how to fix this other than doing a clean install, as im new to slackware.
im thinking of adding another partition to triple boot linux from scratch, win xp, and slackware.
i want to learn lfs so then i can get a better understanding of linux.

but before i reinstall does anyone have any suggestions on how i can fix this errors?