On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:54:07 +0000
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked.  So I emerged
> pidgin, backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch
> pidgin . . .
> 
> Hmm, it seems that I can launch /usr/bin/finch, that brings up an
> ncurses interface, but not pidgin.  There is no pidgin binary!  Have
> I missed out some necessary USE flag perhaps?
> 
> $ pidgin
> -bash: pidgin: command not found
> 
> # ls -la /usr/bin/pidgin
> ls: cannot access /usr/bin/pidgin: No such file or director
> 
> # emerge -pDv pidgin
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] net-im/pidgin-2.2.1  USE="dbus gstreamer ncurses nls
> perl spell -bonjour -debug -doc -eds -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -gtk
> -meanwhile -networkmanager -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk
> -zephyr" 0 kB 
> 
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

USE="gtk" for pidgin. Right you now just have finch (ncurses)

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