gaim 0.74 and MSN SSL
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I just compiled gaim for 9.0 mixing up usr-local-bin and SUSE .spec files. It is last version available, compiled with all the Mozilla libs for ssl installed but when I try to connect to a MNS account I get "SSL support is needed for MSN. Please install it". What else is missing? Kopete works...
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Ivan, If you are installing Gaim from the tarry geezer, it may be that the SSL libraries live in a different directory in SuSE than the installation files want to see. And you have to specify SSL support when you configure Gaim. I shortcircuited the process by going to www.usr-local-bin.org and downloading a GAIM rpm especially designed for SuSE 9.0. It worked right the first time. Hope that helps... Best, Pete . -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts Science and technology correspondent | The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in Home: 508-520-3139 pspotts@alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:11:58 -0500 "Peter N. Spotts" <pspotts@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
Ivan,
If you are installing Gaim from the tarry geezer, it may be that the SSL libraries live in a different directory in SuSE than the installation files want to see. And you have to specify SSL support
What I really did was install everything reasonable concerning SSL/Mozilla from SUSE DVD and copy the configure options from J. Ogley srpm. I didn't notice any warning or error concerning SSL libs, everything compile OK... but gaim complains anyway when I try to use a MSN account. I was wondering if he compiled it with some newer lib version (newer mozilla???) or anything I didn't notice. checking for Mozilla nspr libraries... yes checking for Mozilla nss3 includes in /opt/mozilla/include/nss... "" checking nss.h usability... yes checking nss.h presence... yes checking for nss.h... yes checking ssl.h usability... yes checking ssl.h presence... yes checking for ssl.h... yes etc...
when you configure Gaim. I shortcircuited the process by going to www.usr-local-bin.org and downloading a GAIM rpm especially designed for SuSE 9.0. It worked right the first time.
I saw them... but I'd like to understand what's wrong with mine + starting from SUSE spm I gained a couple of man pages more... but a not working SSL :( anyway I just checked which is lighter among kopete and gaim: ivan@stige:~> ls -lh `which kopete` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.4M 2003-10-24 15:00 /opt/kde3/bin/kopete ivan@stige:~> ls -lh `which gaim` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12M 2003-12-03 15:19 /opt/gnome/bin/gaim Unfortunately Kopete doesn't seem to work in window maker. In suse 8.1 I was able to compile it, load it but it stayed iconified and I couldn't use it... OK... time to rpmize tightvnc... newer rdesktop worked like a charm on SUSE 9.0 :) BTW... I still have some rpm for SUSE 8.1 here: http://www.webthatworks.it/docs/rpms.asp I'll add soon a page for 9.0
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On Wednesday 03 December 2003 22:58, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
What I really did was install everything reasonable concerning SSL/Mozilla from SUSE DVD and copy the configure options from J. Ogley srpm. I had the same problem - it compiled fine and said it was putting the ssl stuff in, but when I ran it it wouldn't work.
I ended up downloading the tarball from gaim.sourceforge.net and doing: ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome2 make make install and it works beautiful. This is 8.2 by the way. I tried James' package (for 9.0) and it worked except that the images were missing. Guess 8.2 and 9.0's gnome differ a bit... Hans
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* Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it> [Dec 03. 2003 20:36]:
I just compiled gaim for 9.0 mixing up usr-local-bin and SUSE .spec files. It is last version available, compiled with all the Mozilla libs for ssl installed but when I try to connect to a MNS account I get "SSL support is needed for MSN. Please install it".
What else is missing?
JFYI I've built gaim-0.74 packages as well in ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mmj/9.0 -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.
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On Wednesday 03 December 2003 18:08, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
JFYI I've built gaim-0.74 packages as well in ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mmj/9.0
And one for 8.2. http://scott.exti.net/files.html -- Homepage http://scott.exti.net XFce desktop environment http://www.xfce.org Goodies for the XFce desktop http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de GPG public key ID: 811B00AB
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* Scott Jones <scott@exti.net> [12-03-03 20:08]:
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 18:08, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
JFYI I've built gaim-0.74 packages as well in ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mmj/9.0
And one for 8.2. http://scott.exti.net/files.html
And for 8.1 ??? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
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