gaim: protocol not supported

[Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique)]

Looks like some pre-packaged binaries exist:
< http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gaim/gaim-0.71-1mdk9.1.i586.rpm?download>
 

Le Vendredi 17 Octobre 2003 21:31, Jing Su a écrit :
> Okay, so GAIM does work, but it took a while for me to figure it out.
> Here's what I've learned....
>
> 1. You MUST upgrade to the 0.71 release.  Previous versions use an older
> MSN protocol which will not work.
>
> 2. You MUST install the NSS and NSPR packages, which are from the Mozilla
> project.
>
> I'm back online on MSN now.
>
> the brief and somewhat unhelpful GAIM faq:
> http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php
>
> It says that you need SSL.  Unfortunately it uses the wrapped version from
> the Mozilla project, not the openssl library; hence needing NSS and NSPR.
>
>
> For those of you interested, a brif summary of my experience below:
>
>
> For NSS, they have binary packages for the 2.4 and 2.2 kernels.  I believe
> they are statically linked, so they don't have any more dependenciess.
> However, I could not find any binary NSPR packages.  NSPR is included in
> the NSS source package, so I decided to just download and build both from
> source.
>
> I'm on a RH8 base distro, with most of the original libraries removed
> and replaced with custom compiled releases of them from source.  So I
> guess Chris might have a harder time with this, if his machine is older
> and slower.
>
> Here's the NSS download page:
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/
> Here's the NSS build instructions:
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/buildnss_331.html
> nevermind the different version numbers.  go ahead and grab the latest.
> The instructions work the same.
>
> After you build NSS from source, the "make install" directive appears to
> do nothing, though you will see lots of console output scroll by.  The
> built binaries are in the: ./mozilla/dist directory of the source tree.
>
> I made a directory: /opt/nss-3.8, and copied everything from the
> ./Linux2.4_x86_glibc directory into there.  I also copied everything from
> the ./public directory into /opt/nss-3.8/include.  Very imortant: all of
> the files in this "distro" directory are symbolic links.  You should do a
> copy using "cp -L", to copy the link target, not just the link.
>
> I then added /opt/nss-3.8/lib to my ld.so.conf file.
>
> Since I already came this far building NSS, I decided to build GAIM from
> source as well.  However, GAIM relies on pkg-config for finding NSS and
> NSPR, and the source distro for NSS/NSPR does not include a .pc file for
> you.  But that's okay, you just have to give more command options to the
> ./configure script.  I used:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/home/jingsu --with-nss-includes=/opt/nss-3.8/include
> --with-nss-libs=/opt/nss-3.8/lib
> --with-nspr-includes=/opt/nss-3.8/include/
> --with-nspr-libs=/opt/nss-3.8/lib/
>
> In the output, when it is done configuring, make sure the SSL option shows
> NSS or Mozilla or something.  You need this because the new MSN protocol
> requires SSL (NSS wraps SSL) to authenticate and sign in.
>
> Finally, do a 'make' and 'make install'.
>
> Everything should work!
>
> If anyone comes up with an easier way of doing this, please share!
>
>
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