On Feb 4, 2008 12:50 AM, Mateusz Mierzwinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman pisze: > > On Feb 3, 2008 3:15 PM, Mateusz Mierzwinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[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 <mailto: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 > You should get pidgin in Your group. Set correct rights to app and libs. > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > I'm not clear on what that means. I don't think I'm going to fool around with file permissions on an installed package. In any event, it turns out that after I ran pidgin as root, it started to work for me as a user too. Go figure. I'm not gonna mess with it. I'm going on to the other things that still don't work. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
