From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 8:28:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B67437B400; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED99143E77; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:28:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.0] (vpn-client-0.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.0]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7QFRiix082220; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:27:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Plugins available for newly installed gaim from ports From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: FreeBSD Gnome , FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <1030364296.356.38.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> References: <1030364296.356.38.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 26 Aug 2002 11:28:18 -0400 Message-Id: <1030375699.328.11.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 08:18, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello, > I've just installed gaim from ports. > > I have an account with MSN, that I'd like to use, but I am unable to get > started as per the online gaim instructions: > Q] How do I use MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, or Zephyr? > > > Ans] First load the plugin. Protocol plugins come with Gaim, so just go > to the Plugins dialog (Tools->Plugins, or the Plugins button on the > start screen) and then click "Load." The protocol plugins are named > libprotocol.so, so MSN for instance is provided by libmsn.so. > > When I click on the gaim icon, the "GAIM Login" applet appears, no > "Tools" button appears, but there is a "Plugins" button. > > Clicking on "Plugins" brings up the plugins applet, but there're the > panel on the left (Loaded Plugins) is blank - as such, there's nothing > available to "Load". Uh, did you click on the Load button (note the instructions say to click on the load button)? When you do, you'll get a list of plugin .so's that you can load. I'm using gaim with AIM and Yahoo, and it works fine. > > Also, I check the man pages for Gaim, which says that > /usr/local/lib/gaim is where I should find all available plugins, but > that dir does *not* exist: > $ ls -la /usr/local/lib/gaim > ls: /usr/local/lib/gaim: No such file or directory > $ > I can fix the manpage in an upcoming release. Joe > Like I said, I've only installed this just a few minutes ago, and there > weren't any dialoge / user input required stages, so where've I gone > wrong here? I'd appreciate some help with this from someone that's got > Gaim working on FreeBSD. > > Here's my uname info: > $ uname -a > FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 24 02:57:09 BST > 2002 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ i386 > $ > > TIA > Stacey > -- > Stacey Roberts > B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science > > Web: www.vickiandstacey.com -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message