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From: Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Next adventure: Pidgin
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:40:59
Message-Id: 57166E48.60902@st.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Next adventure: Pidgin by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de
1 Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Meino.Cramer@×××.de <Meino.Cramer@×××.de> [16-04-19 19:04]:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> on the way to a hopefully working im-client with otr/encryption I next
6 >> checked pidgin
7 >>
8 >> I set the use flags like this
9 >>
10 >> Installed versions: 2.10.11(18:48:35 04/19/16)(dbus doc gnutls
11 >> gstreamer gtk ncurses nls perl python sasl tk xscreensaver -aqua
12 >> -debug -eds -gadu -groupwise -idn -meanwhile -mxit
13 >> -networkmanager -prediction -silc -spell -tcl -zephyr -zeroconf
14 >> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4"
15 >> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4")
16 >>
17 >>
18 >> The compilation runs fine resulting in a pidgin executable which does
19 >> simply nothing.
20 >> Called from the commandline the cursor jumps from behind 'pidgin' into
21 >> next line on pressing <RETURN>.
22 >> Nothing else happens.
23 >>
24 >> What I am doing wrong here?
25 >>
26 >
27 > Ok, one additional finding:
28 >
29 > sudo pidgin displays a starting dialog (account setup).
30 > I did not proceed to not to "pollute" the installation
31 > with root permissions.
32 >
33 > I checked the implemented groups but found nothing
34 > appropiate to add my uid to.
35 >
36 > Remains the one question: How can I fix it?
37 >
38
39 This won't help you much but here it works as expected: if I remove the
40 config firectory (~/.purple) and issue 'pidgin' from the command line a
41 GUI wizard shows up.
42
43 [I] net-im/pidgin
44 Installed versions: 2.10.12-r2(03:26:26 PM 03/22/2016)(dbus
45 gnutls gtk ncurses nls spell xscreensaver -aqua -debug -doc -eds -gadu
46 -groupwise -gstreamer -idn -meanwhile -mxit -networkmanager -perl -pie
47 -prediction -python -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr -zeroconf
48 PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4"
49 PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 -python3_3")
50
51 'pidgin -d' will print some debugging info, maybe you'll get something
52 out of it.
53
54 raffaele

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