Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 03:21:57 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: "Jonathan T. Sage" <sagejona@theatre.msu.edu>, ecrist@adtechintegrated.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yahoo! and GAIM Message-ID: <200401100321.57328.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <3FFF7E3C.8050406@theatre.msu.edu> References: <200401092151.16631.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <3FFF7E3C.8050406@theatre.msu.edu>
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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 Doing a 'pkg_add -n' on the ymessenger package at the FreeBSD ftp site reveals that the package/dependencies have been updated. Have you tried using the FreeBSD package or port? Best of luck, Andrew Gould
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