Re: [SLUG] Gaim

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2008 - 00:15:52 EST


On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Jason Copenhaver wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> I upgraded to gaim 2.0b3.1, and it doesn't raise the chat window when the
>> conversant says something. Has anyone else found this? Is there a
>> workaround, or failing that, how do I downgrade?

> I'm not sure how you downgrade..

If I get the source and compile it, is there a way to turn that into a
binary .deb?

> But you have tried upgrading to the latest Pidgin release? Gaim changed
> it's name to Pidgin.

Yeah, Synaptic doesn't show it (even after rescanning the repositories).
Maybe in a later version of the distro?

...

Ah, cool: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-437239.html but dunno
if it's going to be compatible. Feisty is, after all, 4 versions later than
what I installed.

> 2.0b3.1 is old and likely to have issues.

1.5(? 1.8?) worked fine in that regard. I had hoped the later one would
have something silly like webcam support (nope).

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