[CALUG] irc client in Fedora 12

[Walt Smith]

Hi,

I found pidgin in a fedora in repo /Everything dir online,
although I'm disappointed at how difficult fedora made
it to find a F12 repository.

pidgin requires yet additional files including a gstreamer.
I installed a bunch of those last year.. and now more ?
Will examine the dependencies.

Also found the last F12 empathy update and installed including the empathy libs.
Didn't look any different upon clicking.

Did look at the FAQ ( actually, looked 2 days ago ) you linked to.
Pretty unhelpful since I can't get past step one.
But then, not getting that far may be helpful for someone
who knows the problem.


Will consider the other options: Irssi (?) and XChat--  again XChat wasn't
in the distro DVD I had, but will look at whats needed in the online repo.

thanks,

Walt...........

Celebrating over 13,000 emails in my Yahoo Inbox !

--- On Thu, 7/21/11, Matt Rechkemmer <calug-list at aesir-corporation.com> wrote:

From: Matt Rechkemmer <calug-list at aesir-corporation.com>
Subject: Re: [CALUG] irc client in Fedora 12
To: "Walt Smith" <waltechmail at yahoo.com>
Cc: calug at unknownlamer.org
Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011, 6:33 PM

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:55:53PM -0700, Walt Smith wrote:
> 
> also, F12 has a /usr/lib/pidgin but neither of the F12 distro 
> 
> list of packages I have on my HD has a  rpm package
> 
> nor does 
> 
> $>locate pidgin     # find a  execute file.

It *is* available in F-12:
http://bit.ly/oH6qK2

You'll need to install it with 'yum' or something similar.

For example:
# yum -y install pidgin

> And why wouldn't empathy work ???   However, I'm not
> 
> adamant about using it.   Perhaps a bit wondering how to fix it.

I've never used Empathy, but perhaps this might be worth reading?
http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#How_can_I_connect_to_IRC_in_Empathy_.3F

Also, if you're not fond of CLI Irssi, try XChat.  It's a GTK+ GUI client.

Hope this helps,

--
Matt Rechkemmer
calug-list at aesir-corporation.com

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
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