Re: compiling gaim for woody and xfree86 4.1
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
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