gaim dependendent on kdelibs?

[Tom London]

On 10/1/05, Steven I Usdansky <usdanskys at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Just checking. I rebuilt my development install by starting with a
> minimal FC4 install, upgrading it to development, then adding the just
> packages I want (along with their dependencies). The only problem I've
> encountered is with gaim. Although it installed without any objections,
> it kept crashing on me when I'd try to send a message via my msn
> account. Starting from a terminal gives the following msg:
> ~$ gaim
> sh: lnusertemp: command not found
> can't create mcop directory
> Poking around a bit, it appears that lnusertemp is provided by kdelibs.
> After installing kdelibs, all appears to be well. However, nothing in
> rpm -q --requires gaim reveals no such dependency. A bug?
>
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> Steven I. Usdansky, PhD

Yeah, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169631

Until fixed, here are 2 'work arounds' (both work for me):
    1. revert to an earlier version of arts
    2. changing the 'sound preference method' in gaim preferences from
'automatic' to 'arts'.

tom
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Tom London