Installing gaim 0.64
 

I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and I want to install gaim 0.64. So I downloaded gaim-0.64-1.i386.rpm from the gaim website. When I went to install it, it said:
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (5 MB):
gaim-0.64-1.i386
libgtkspell0-2.0.3-3mdk.i586
libpspell4-0.12.2-7mdk.i586
pspell-0.12.2-7mdk.i586

So I thought it would go well and clicked ok. But then I get the error

Conflicts were detected:

gtk2 = 2.0.0 is needed by gaim-0.64-1

Install aborted

I also tried to install from source so did the ./configure but it returns me an error of:
checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.0.0... no
*** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK+ is incorrectly installed.
configure: error:
*** GTK+ 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you have the GTK+
*** development headers installed. The latest version of GTK+ is
*** always available at http://www.gtk.org/.

Do I need to install the GTK+ 2.0? or is there a way for me to use what I already have?

I checked and found out that I have GTK+-2.2 and the gtk website said that GTK+-2.2 was compatible with GTK+-2.0, so what is going on? How do I install gaim? Do I need to get GTK+-2.0?

Hmm interesting... Check the Gaim website for problems with this, there might be some info there.

-Shade

I checked and found out that I have GTK+-2.2

how did you check? what does "rpm -qa | grep gtk" say about it's existence? If that gtk = 2.0.0 is completely correct then there may well be a slight error in that rpm.

as for source, you won't have gtk2-devel installed. install that and you should be able to compile fine.

There a Mandrake package of gaim .64 at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/g...6.rpm?download

thanks so much the rpm u gave works perfectly

You're welcome!

All it takes sometimes is taking a good look at the available packages. If there is one optimized for your distro, it's recommended to install that one instead of the generic i386.rpm package.