GAIM 0.82

[Eddie Bindt]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Olaf Olson wrote:

Please stop advising users to build and install packages this way.
This is the second time a see advises to build from source on this list.
Building and installing from source on an RPM based system is BAD !!
You will get in deep shit if you don't know exactly what you are doing.
Try to tell people how they should rebuild a newer RPM for ydl3. That aint 
so hard.. Get a prebuild RPM from freshrpms .. or, if it is not there 
(yet), get the fedora-core /fedora/development/SRPMS/gaim-0.82.1-2.src.rpm 
and rebuild it ...

Eddie

> Every now and then, I get a disconnected- try again message when I try 
> to connect to Yahoo, with GAIM.  I used to panic when I tried  'yum 
> update gaim',  and was told I had the latest. Usually, I pester 
> freshrpms.net to get a new one compiled and into the repository.
> 
> When I launched 0.79 and found it incompatible with Yahoo, again, I 
> decided to try the compile, from sourceforge.net.
> 
> Since this isn't installing, but actually building, I was sure it would 
> take days, frustrate me, drive me to despair and distraction, and 
> generally force me back to commercial OS. The steps were easy:
> 
> Get the source - use your favorite method (tarball, gzipped tar, or 
> whatever) to download it from the source (Sourceforge!)
> 
> Unpack it (gunzip - tar xvf, if you're old and can only remember the 
> individual steps) to a sizable temporary directory.
> 
> cd to the directory created by the unpacking.
> 
> type:  ./configure
> 
> type: make     - this does the compiling
> 
> type: make install    - this makes it work for you
> 
> type: make clean   and make distclean  - this gets rid of the temporary 
> files that the compiler used
> 
> then run it!
> 
> Want to know the real secret to looking like an expert! I learned this 
> when I worked at Sears, in the hardware/paint department. You can look 
> like the most knowledgeable person in the store, *if* you can read the 
> paint cans faster upside down, than the customer can read them right 
> side up!
> 
> Same rule applies here. Sourceforge has placed all the instructions in 
> the INSTALL file, in the installation directory. I couldn't remember 
> that, so they set it up for guys like me and created a README file, 
> whose name is in nice friendly capital letters, that tells me to read 
> the INSTALL file for the instructions!
> 
> Anyway, this is an easy compile and will help to build confidence in 
> compiling, while giving you that instant message capability. Oh, yeah, 
> configure even checks to be sure that you have the correct libraries and 
> stuff and will tell you what needs to be "yum update" so that you can 
> finish the compile. It will also stop when it hits a snag, but remember 
> everything it did up to that point, so you can start again, without 
> redoing everything that worked so far.
> 
> Olaf
> 
> Don't Panic!
> 
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Eddie Bindt