On Friday 09 January 2004 10:23 pm, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: > Eric F Crist wrote: > > Hello people. > > > > I used to think IM clients were passe and childish, until I tried to go > > without. I found that there are a lot of business associates and friends > > that use it, and it makes life a lot easier. So, alas, I've been using > > GAIM as a one-stop shop. However, Yahoo! changed their protocol again > > this morning, so I can't log in. I tried to download their freebsd port > > (which THEY wrote) and I get the following errors when I try to install > > it with pkg_add: > > > > nomad# pkg_add fbsd4.ymessenger.tgz > > pkg_add: could not find package gtk-1.2.3 ! > > pkg_add: could not find package glib-1.2.3 ! > > pkg_add: could not find package XFree86-3.3.6 ! > > pkg_add: could not find package gdk-pixbuf-0.8.0 ! > > pkg_add: could not find package gettext-0.11.1_1 ! > > nomad# > > > > Does anyone have a fix for this? This GAIM password thing is new this > > morning, I've done searches, and there isn't a fix yet. It's even > > discussed on the Yahoo! groups for Unix clients. > > > > TIA > > These errors are caused because pkg_add cannot find the listed > prerequisites. Install those and it should work fine. > > ~j
Not to be rude, but I know that. I have those packages installed, just MUCH newer versions. How do I work around this and force the install? -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588
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