On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:29:46 -0400
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 05:18:32PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:01:14 -0400
> > Robert Wolfe <wolfe.robwolfe@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know who the .deb maintainer for GAIM is? I
> > > downloaded and built the binaries for GAIM 1.5.0 today and am
> > > running it know under Etch on an Ultra 5 without any problems.
> > > Howver, I am having problems with rpm -ba to build an .RPM format
> > > I want to convert to .DEB later (using alien). Any ideas?
> > >
> >
> > Why not grab the source, and build it yourself? You could use
> > checkinstall to create your own deb file.
> >
> > The current maintainer always adds a "1:" before his builds, which
> > screws up. IMHO
> >
>
> Why not get the source from Sid and rebuild it on Etch? Then you have
> the benefit of installing it as a real Debian package.
>
> -Roberto
for me, just as easy to grab source from gaim.sourceforge.net
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