From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 01:21:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F187C16A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:21:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA8D43D41 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:20:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 22-15.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.22.15] helo=yoda.datawok.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AfFIg-0001cl-00; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:20:58 -0800 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: "Jonathan T. Sage" , ecrist@adtechintegrated.com Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 03:21:57 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401092151.16631.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <3FFF7E3C.8050406@theatre.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3FFF7E3C.8050406@theatre.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401100321.57328.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4be70fc9b2ebd7ad49f2bb580fd7a19a9a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yahoo! and GAIM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:21:01 -0000 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