Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 19:17 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: <...> > > I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I understand why you > > didn't do it this way: > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get install gaim > > One reason. The debian maintainer has a weird numbering scheme. Gaim > is a

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:20:46 -0800 Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Peter wrote: > > > I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. > > I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also > > added stable ), main, contrib and non-free > > Then I did : > > apt-ge

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Ralph Alvy
But gaim is already available as a binary for you. No need to compile it if you just apt-get update apt-get install gaim Ralph Alvy wrote: > John Peter wrote: > >> I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. >> I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable source

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Ralph Alvy
John Peter wrote: > I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. > I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also > added stable ), main, contrib and non-free > Then I did : > apt-get update > apt-get build-dep gaim > John I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not su

Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread John Peter
I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also added stable ), main, contrib and non-free Then I did : apt-get update apt-get build-dep gaim and I get the error: E: Build-Depends dependency for gaim cannot be satisfied because