On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 02:33, Caitrin Torres wrote: > I'm running Woody, generally with KDE, and I'd like to upgrade to a > current version of gaim. AFAIK, using a precompiled version isn't an > option for me since the only debs I've found require xfree86 4.2.1, > and as I understand it support for my video card was dropped between > versions 4.1 and 4.2.
I am the maintainer of the gnome2.2 backport for woody. I did actually get the backport to run under 4.1.0, but I don't know how stable it would prove day to day (http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2/notes/rninstallation.html recommends xfree86 4.2). In order to do it you need to build libxft2, libxrender1.1 and libfontconfig1 from source (and changed their debian/control files to use xlibs 4.1.0). Add this to sources.list deb-src http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/ gnome2.2/ apt-get source libxft2 libfontconfig1 libxrender1.1 then cd into each source directory (in the order above) and do: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot You may need debhelper etc, if so, just grab them from: deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/ gnome2.2/ Install the resulting packages, and then you should be able to do: apt-get install gaim from my backport. Note, this is a mostly untested configuration and may not work well. However, it is probably at least worth a try since you can easily uninstall all the packages mentioned without hurting your system. Jamie -- James Strandboge Targeted Performance Partners, LLC Web: http://www.tpptraining.com E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (585) 271-8370 Fax: (585) 271-8373
