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Gaim for SuSE 




On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:49:32 -0700, Terry E. Milnes Jr.
<neofax_99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 26 July 2004 02:39 am, Josephine wrote:
> > On Monday 26 July 2004 08:53, Terry E. Milnes Jr. wrote:
> > > On Sunday 25 July 2004 11:39 pm, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> > > > Terry E. Milnes Jr. wrote:
> > > > >This rpm complains about the perllocal.pod conflicting with
> > > > > perllocal.pod in Video-DVDRip-0.50.18-0.pm.0.  Any suggestions on how
> > > > > to install? Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > >NeoFax
> > >
> > > The package will not install with those files conflicting. That is what I
> > > get when I do rpm -Uvh gaim*.i586.rpm.  No, I do not want to do a
> > > --nodeps or --force install of gaim.  I may just have to get the SuSE
> > > spec file and try to compile it that way.  Thanks!
> > >
> > > NeoFax
> >
> > it would be much easier just to compile the sources from gaim. you just
> > need the gtk headers, pkgconfig and that would be all if i remember
> > correctly. then just a configure, make, make install and end of stress.
> >
> > Josephine
> However, this will not reflect in the rpm database.  Why have a rpm
> distribution if you are just going to recompile everything from source.  I
> can understand compiling from source if the distribution does not package the
> program you want to use.  However, gaim is already packaged and it is just as
> easy to download the SuSE provided source package of gaim and the source of
> gaim and change the .spec file and rebuild a new rpm, thus keeping your rpm
> database fresh.
> 
> 
> 
> NeoFax
> 
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