SuSE 7.0 and gaim.....

[apologies if incorrect newsgroup] I have been attempting for some time now to get gaim to work on my SuSE 7.0, KDE 2.2.1, Xfree 4.1, Kernel 2.2.19 and with glib greater than 1.2.3 box. The error indicates that GLIB > 1.2.0 is not installed but YAST says 1.2.8 IS installed. So, the question, does gaim not work on 7.0? Or KDE? Any hints, tips, tricks that I might try. I have been getting more and more risky with trying different things and the last thing I need is another lesson on re-installing! Even if I try to use the gaim rpm's YAST says that it wont install any packages with major number <= 3. Thanks Eric