Pidgin Install problem
 

I just followed the directions for installing the new version of Pidgin. I thought I followed the steps but when I go to install it I get the message Unable to install, some application packages required for the installation are missing. Can anyone help me? I would like to use AIM on my 800. If I have to unstall can you help me with that also>

Thank you for any help you can offer.

Kathy

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

Do you have these repositories? exactly?

Catalogue name: Pidgin On Maemo
Web address: http://idefix.go-nix.ca/nix
Distribution: bora
Components: pidgin

Catalogue name: Maemo Hackers
Web address: http://maemo-hackers.org/apt
Distribution: mistral
Components: main

Thank You
 

Alvin, thanks for taking the time to respond to my call for help. I check the catalogues and I had one wrong. I changed it and now I can IM on AOL and check my email.

Once again thank you.

Kathy

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

I got fault now that it does not support my version. I have the newest software on the N800 (actually came with it) so is pidgin not updated for the last update?

I tried to install from maemo.org

Re: Thank You
 

glad to help :)

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

do you have

Distribution: bora

for the Pidgin On Maemo catalog?

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

english please? I am so struggeling to find out what different thing I need first before installing apps I need/want.
I have been all over maemo.org up and down and installed one thing after the other.. found out that mClock needed python2.5. found python but not sure what hildon and gtk2 is and where to find..

ps.. Found maemo 3.x bora SDK?? Is that the one..

All that i am trying to install I have downloaded from maemo.org

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

sorry. I remember when I first got my N800 feeling lost also.

For Pidgin you are best to follow the steps here
http://pidgin.garage.maemo.org/

Just make sure you set
Distribution: bora
and not chinook as it shows in the instructions.

For the N800 you just need the two catalogs like I posted further up in this thread.

(This version of the operating system on the N800 is called OS2007, or code name bora. The next version, out next month, is OS2008, or code name chinook. The distribution line in the catalog you set up in Application manager needs to say bora for now.)

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

that helped a bit.. now I found pidgin. Now I just miss some libgnutls13

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

it sounds like you have the first catalog correct but not the second. The second one needs to say
Distribution: mistral
- I know, this kind of goes against what I just said, but that is how pidgin gets the required libraries

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

There's your problem :) corrected that maemo-hackers with mistral and it works.

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

I'm glad to hear it is working.

Hopefully adding applications will become easier..

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

hey guys can anyone here please help me out with getting pidgin running?

if i try to install pidgin with all the required repositories noted it still fails on a dependancy for libgutls and libgcrypt.

if i stick my n800 into red pill mode i can at least see those libraries are there but trying to get libgutls11 also fails to install.

which makes me think that is probably why the pidgin install is failing in the first place.

any thoughts or ideas greatly appreciated peoples.

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

Well this explains why I've been unable to update to the latest version.... kinda weird. Does anyone know why they reverted the naming on the repo's?

Re: Pidgin Install problem
 

my guess is that you don't have the catalogs exactly right.