On Feb 5, 2008 2:54 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged pidgin, > backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch pidgin . . . > > Hmm, it seems that I can launch /usr/bin/finch, that brings up an ncurses > interface, but not pidgin. There is no pidgin binary! Have I missed out > some necessary USE flag perhaps? > > $ pidgin > -bash: pidgin: command not found > > # ls -la /usr/bin/pidgin > ls: cannot access /usr/bin/pidgin: No such file or director > > # emerge -pDv pidgin > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] net-im/pidgin-2.2.1 USE="dbus gstreamer ncurses nls perl > spell -bonjour -debug -doc -eds -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -gtk -meanwhile > -networkmanager -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr" > 0 kB > Maybe +gtk ?
What does "equery f pidgin" say? (If you don't have equery, emerge gentoolkit). > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB > -- > Regards, > Mick > -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
