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[jollygamer321]

Hey, Im new to Xandros, but not really to Linux. I've tried Fedora several times but run in to problems. I'm like Xandros alot, sept for installing programs. I really have got a handle on that yet. I want to install Gaim/Pidgin (Pidgin if I can, I don't know if its stable for Xandros yet though). Where can I download it? I tried several things but nothing has really worked yet.

[strawnman]

Hello Jollygamer,

Welcome to the friendliest forum on the net. Welcome to the Xandros community. First off, you need to tell us what version you are running. Xandros has several versions availible and each is a little different. It looks like on XN you can install gaim, but it may be in the unstable repository. It has been a long time since I checked my repository. The version I checked this with is Xandros Pro. I just did a check and it installs like a charm. Just type in gaim.

No hits on Pidgin. Redrum, any idea?

Eric
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[jimallyn]

Welcome to Xandros, and Welcome to the Xandros forums, jollygamer321!

There was some discussion of Pidgin on the forums a while back. Have a look here:

http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=30994

As far as I know, nobody has been able to get it running on Xandros yet.

However, you can install Gaim in Xandros. I have version 1.2.1-1.4 installed. You can get it here:

http://packages.debian.org/oldstable/net/gaim

Jim
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[geekydude]

[ggvrsn]

I downloaded pidgin 202 source from pidgin.im and compiled it and it works well, after a bit of a moving of lib files to its intended locations.

Even though libmeanwhile is installed, while compiling, it did take that in. So Sametime does not show up as a plugin. Any ideas?

Thanks

-GGR
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[saulm]

I've got pidgin 2.3.1 running on X4. I had to build it from source.
Get it from http://www.pidgin.im/download/

do tar -xzg (file) on the downloaded file to expand the source tree

From XN
Install xorg-compat-dev
Install libnss-dev
Install libnspr-dev

As root create the file /usr/lib/libXcursor.la (code follows)

# libXcursor.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by ltmain.sh - GNU libtool 1.5.6 (1.1220.2.95 2004/04/11 05:50:42) Debian: 203 $
#
# Please DO NOT delete this file!
# It is necessary for linking the library.

# The name that we can dlopen(3).
dlname='libXcursor.so.1'

# Names of this library.
library_names='libXcursor.so.1.0.2 libXcursor.so.1 libXcursor.so'

# The name of the static archive.
old_library='libXcursor.a'

# Libraries that this one depends upon.
dependency_libs=' -L/usr/X11R6/lib /usr/lib/libXrender.la -lX11'

# Version information for libXcursor.
current=1
age=0
revision=2

# Is this an already installed library?
installed=yes

# Should we warn about portability when linking against -modules?
shouldnotlink=no

# Files to dlopen/dlpreopen
dlopen=''
dlpreopen=''

# Directory that this library needs to be installed in:
libdir='/usr/lib'

--- last line of file is above this one...

go back to the build directory and run
./configure

Add from XN all missing packages identified. Keep doing ./configure and installing until it goes without errors. I didn't keep track of what had to be added unfortunately. Maybe if somebody else tries this they can post up a list.

run the command
make

as root, run the command
make install

At this point if you exit back to your normal id and run
pidgin at the prompt it should start.

[Kc 4sbj]

Saulm will you please break it down a little more so i can understand how to do it

i love ruinning linux but dont know anything about this with me you need to break it down one sept at a time for me


thanks

[arabianights]