On Feb 3, 2008 3:15 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman pisze: > > I just got around to noticing that my "gaim" IM client is deprecated. > > I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to > > start it silently fail. > > I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing. > > Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing. > > Does anybody want to help me guess? > > > > > > -- > > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > Try to change name of directory in Your home - .gaim to someelse. Next > try to start pidgin. If it fails, then run emerge --sync && emerge > pidgin -va (set flags for things you need) and next try to run again. If > renaming of .gaim catalog help's then this is incompatibility of > configure files or some archives. Try to experiment. IF somethings > happend, wrote here. > > Mateusz M. > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > renaming .gaim to "dot.gaim" makes no difference. I did not re-emerge it, but found that it works if I'm the root user. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
