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From: Greg Bowser <topnotcher@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:59:11
Message-Id: 9ed554210802051159h9d5b4bej2c58919490b886b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin by Mick
1 You need to get the gtk use flag to get the gtk GUI ;)
2
3 --Greg
4 On Feb 5, 2008 2:54 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
5
6 > I decided to move on from Gaim, since it is now masked. So I emerged
7 > pidgin,
8 > backed up ~/.gaim, unmerged gaim and tried to launch pidgin . . .
9 >
10 > Hmm, it seems that I can launch /usr/bin/finch, that brings up an ncurses
11 > interface, but not pidgin. There is no pidgin binary! Have I missed out
12 > some necessary USE flag perhaps?
13 >
14 > $ pidgin
15 > -bash: pidgin: command not found
16 >
17 > # ls -la /usr/bin/pidgin
18 > ls: cannot access /usr/bin/pidgin: No such file or director
19 >
20 > # emerge -pDv pidgin
21 >
22 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
23 >
24 > Calculating dependencies... done!
25 > [ebuild R ] net-im/pidgin-2.2.1 USE="dbus gstreamer ncurses nls perl
26 > spell -bonjour -debug -doc -eds -gadu -gnutls -groupwise -gtk -meanwhile
27 > -networkmanager -prediction -qq -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr"
28 > 0 kB
29 >
30 > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
31 > --
32 > Regards,
33 > Mick
34 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] More problems with Pidgin Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>