GAIM

[pi-sics]

when i try to install the newest gaim verison (i somewhere read in this forum i should try the mandrake) it comes up with some errors.

<x/Desktop/gaim-0.75-0mdk9.2.i586.rpm';echo RESULT=$?
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
RESULT=1

here it stops.
how can i upgrade the gaim already installed on Knoppix 3.2?

apt-get -t unstable install gaim
this one isn't updating it to the newest version...

Thanks!
Arne

[c123]

This doesn't directly answer your question, but I'd suggest trying Kopete which is in KDE 3.2 (unless you need a particular protocol that Kopete does not have).

Should be in the menu, otherwise from a shell (normal user) type "kopete &".

I prefer Gaim, but the gf insisted on being able to use the Yahoo network (which Gaim currently cannot do without a patch from somewher) so I tried out Kopete. Not bad; actually pretty good.

So I'm using Kopete, at least until a newer and better working version (= connect to Yahoo) comes out.

HTH

p.s. I thought that to use an RPM, you first had to ocnvert it to .deb using 'Alien' or something???

[pi-sics]

thanks for your help!
i tried alien, but it didn't either work with .deb files, because i had to refresh the listing of the installed packages, and now there was gaim, so i could say uninstall and tell him to get the newest version

have a nice week!
bye