Yahoo! and GAIM

[Andrew L. Gould]

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