On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 17:43 -0500, Unix Friend wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm a new Pidgin user. I yum installed meanwhile*, rpm -ivh'ed > gaim-meanwhile-"latest version", grabbed the source bzip2 tarball for > pidgin from sourceforge, installed all gnutls, etc. dependencies, > configured, make, make install (no problems whatsoever) and thought > I'd have a working Pidgin with Meanwhile libraries and plugin to allow > me to use Sametime. > > Unfortunately, that is not the case. My config.h shows meanwhile=yes > and the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for MEANWHILE are set. > > When I start Pidgin up, I have no Sametime symbol when I try to Manage > Accounts and Add a new account. I successfully added my Yahoo, GTalk > and MSN accounts, but am stymied by the lack of Sametime. > > I found the following helpful walkthrough: > > http://linux-hacks.blogspot.com/2008/01/getting-pidgin-to-support-sametime.html > > Following this for RHEL 5.2 doesn't produce a working Pidgin with > Sametime support. > > What am I doing wrong? Am I missing something? What should I post to > help troubleshoot?
Sametime/Meanwhile support is included in our official RPMs for RHEL 5, see http://pidgin.im/download/centos_rhel/ for download details. The way we split the RPMs, you will need to "yum install libpurple-meanwhile" once you have our repository added to your configuration. You don't need any gaim* things installed, and you would be best to remove the pidgin you built from source (using 'make uninstall' in the source directory you installed from). I don't think that "helpful walkthrough" is actually helpful at all, really. Regards, Stu. _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
