Re: Problems building Gaim

[Ralph Alvy <ralvy@warpmail.net>]

But gaim is already available as a binary for you. No need to compile it if
you just

        apt-get update
        apt-get install gaim

Ralph Alvy wrote:

> John Peter wrote:
> 
>> I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing.
>> I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also
>> added stable ), main, contrib and non-free
>> Then I did :
>> apt-get update
>> apt-get build-dep gaim
>  
>> John
> 
> I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I understand why you didn't
> do it this way:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get install gaim