Hi

I just installed Redhat 8.0, and am trying to install Gaim. But I encountered some problems again. I d/led the rh8.rpm from sourceforge.net assuming it is for Redhat 8. After I double click on the downloaded file, I get this error message "Required Package Not Found!" and the missing package is "libgtkspell.so.0". It seems like I did not install certain packages that is required by Gaim. Can someone please point out which package I need to install for Gaim to work, and where can I get them. Thanks

Hi, if you want install apt-get http://www.aplawrence.com/Linux/aptget.html . apt-get is a program for RedHat and others distro that lets you install rpms with all the required packages.. For example to install Gaim you will do something like
apt-get install gaim
This will install gaim and all the packages needed by it without you having to look for them one by one.. Now if you don't want to do this and make your life harder, jus go to www.rpmfind.net and type libgtkspell.so.0 click search, download the rpm, install it, and try to install gaim again, if you need more packages, do the same until you have all the packages needed by gaim...

Thanks

BTW I just found out that RedHat 8 has Gaim installed already. So I got another question how do u uninstall Gaim that's installed by Redhat 8?

rpm -e gaim

i'm on redhat 9 and i have found the gaim installed, but its crap. is there somewhere or something i can use to update the gaim that i have so it accepts logon to msn / yahoo etc etc? i know there is a v of gaim that does this since it is on knoppix locd.

ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/freshrpms/redhat/9


install the rpm

rpm -Uvh gaim*
no need to uninstall the old one as the -U option updates and uninstalls the old one for you

if you need gtkspell

look on the same link
download to the same file

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

will install both

How long does the apt-get update process take? I need apt-get for this very reason (Gaim), but I think apt-get might be hanging as well.

I was going to open another thread, but it won't let me post URLs yet. I'll post it a bit later when my post count goes up.

Thanks.

OK. Now I'm getting something else. It says it can't find the package, but it's there.

[root@aargh Packages]# apt-get install gaim-0.70-1rh8.i386.rpm
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package gaim-0.70-1rh8.i386.rpm



Oh, this is driving me batty. Has anyone seen this before?

Do this first
apt-get update
then do this
apt-get install gaim
You don't have to specified the whole name, just put gaim and it will download or update to the latest version. Good luck.

Have you tried loading the modules? ... My Gaim works fine and is the same one you have...

Well, I finally got it that far. However, it still has an older version (.59) in every apt repository I have tried. Either that, or it's the latest version that my dependencies can support. Screw it, I'm giving it up for now. Gaim isn't that important. Thanks for the help though.

most talk of modules and blah blah i have no idea what u mean. im still a complete newbie and havent been able to get onto linux.org to read the tutorials and all the stuff yet.
im slowly getting my way through the updater to get things updated to the newest state. half of these files i am supposed to download from all these sites all over the place that people say about, and install them, i have no idea how to. i can download them into a folder, but installing them is a different matter. hopefully sometime this sunday i will find the time to sit down and play.
my old man is gonna give me a 7 day unix course thing that he did for work so i can learn some of the jargon. that hopefully will b helpful if i find the time to do it.

Great, apt-get is fantastic! Thank you so much.

btw, theres no more support for yahoo in gaim

No problem