that link and info is on the gaim.sourceforge site

You go to gtk.org and go to the download page and get the glib-x.x.tar.gz anbd compile that for glib, but you need pkgconfig first too. Compile pkgconfig with ./configure, make, and then make install.

- Smiley

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0 ok this is the site.... hwo do i pass the documents tahta are in the ftp to my pc......

Um, you click on it and click Save or something..

- Smiley

this appened whn i tryed to instal glib.... (i already did the make insatll with pkgconfig)

Password:
dC85D0DC2:/home/g33k # cd /home/g33k/glib-2.0.7
dC85D0DC2:/home/g33k/glib-2.0.7 # ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake-1.4... missing
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for the BeOS... no
checking for Win32... no
checking whether to enable garbage collector friendliness... no
checking whether to disable memory pools... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for c++... c++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no
checking for pkg-config... no
configure: error: *** pkg-config not found. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
dC85D0DC2:/home/g33k/glib-2.0.7 #
what went worng??

ok i did
cd /home/g33k/pkgconfig-0.15.0
./configure
make
make install

ok..... pkgconfig should be ready...

then
cd /home/g33k/glib-2.0.7
./configure
and the console told me i didnt have pkgconfig....... what did i miss???

do i have to put glib inside pkgconfig????
(all of this was done while i was root)

Did you compile glib too?

- Smiley

do u mean like unzip????

I mean unzip, then run ./configure, then make, and then make install.

- Smiley

Does anyone know what they are talking about? I am a linux newb myself and I have tried everything you have stated and none of it works.

Once I am in the gaim directory I type ./configure and it tells me unknown command. WTF?

install it using rpm from here :
http://www.usr-local-bin.org/gaim.php

look around on the site if you're using an older version of suse...i'm using 8.2, and i was able to download and install everything i needed to get gaim up and running great in less than an hour..after spending DAYS trying to download and configure all the "dependencies"....and messing with the tar.gz files...rpm is the way to go

ok, this is very confusing, and i want to help

first, i need to know exactly what your are trying to install, and then tell me exactly what the problem is

all i can say right now is that you need to learn the cd, ./configure, make, and make install commands (all those are typed into the console to make it magically do magic)

for example, when you open up a terminal, you are in your home directory
when you did the tar -zxvf, it untarred (similar to unzip) the file and makes a new directory

cd means change directory, you should type cd gaim-0.72
then, you should be able to type ./configure and it will configure the program install scripts for you (configure is actually a script that comes with the program, some programs however don't have one and that's why it will tell you ./configure, command not found)

after that, type make
the program will build, then do su
type your root password, hit enter
then type make install

If configure was supposed to be included then it wasn't included in the tar.gz file. I think I'll go the rpm route.

I installed Gaim .74 on SuSE 9.0 from apt with great ease.

I tried the one that comes with Red Hat 9.0 and it does not support MSN. That is why I am trying to get a new version or anything that supports MSN.