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02-16-2005, 07:16 AM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Slackware, BackTrack, Windows XP
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problem while installing "gaim"
Hello all,
i have redhat 8..
i installed gaim-1.1.2-0rh9.i386.rpm properly....
Now running command "gaim" in the prompt ....the gaim is appearing on the screen.
i made a new user...( i don't know about the various prtocol to be used...etc.)
when i'm trying to signon........its giving error after some time..
." was unable to sign on: Authentication Failed."
help me...
regards.
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02-16-2005, 07:56 AM
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thats because i think due to older version of gaim
do this
rpm -qa|grep gaim
this will give u all the versions of gaim installed
uninstall then
rpm -e gaim..
then reinstall the new gaim rpm again
regards
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02-16-2005, 11:21 AM
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Hello..........
i did as u instructed...
but its still giving the problem...
"gaim: relocation error: gaim: undefined symbol: gtk_tree_store_move_before
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02-16-2005, 11:31 AM
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can u post what command did u run??? the full O/p
regards
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02-16-2005, 11:38 AM
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for uninstalling the older version. i wrote...
.........." rpm -e gaim........"
then for installing the new version....
........."rpm -ivh gaim...."
after it got successfully installed...i'm just writing "gaim" on the prompt.
i'm getting the user login window for yahoo messenger but when i'm trying
to log in.......it's giving the error stated above on the command prompt.
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02-16-2005, 11:58 AM
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post thge O/P of
rpm -qa|grep gaim
regards
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02-16-2005, 12:10 PM
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The output of rpm -qa|grep gaim is "gaim-1.1.2-0rh9"
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02-16-2005, 12:26 PM
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i think the is some problem with ur rpm
get the source and compile urself
also i see that ur using redhat 8 and u r usng rpm for redhat 8
regards
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