Gaim on Fedora Core 1

[Mark Eggers]

The reason why gaim fails on Fedora Core 1 is because the appropriate
libpspell and libpspell-modules are missing.

Right now there doesn't appear to be an rpm for this for Fedora Core 1. 
Trying the Redhat 9 rpm via Synaptic fails.

However, it's quite easy to install.  Just wander over to:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pspell/pspell-.12.2.tar.gz

1 Pick your nearest download site, and download the compressed tar file.

2. Uncompress pspell-.12.2.tar.gz via
    gunzip pspell-.12.2.tar.gz

3. Extract the tar file via
    tar xvf pspell-.12.2.tar

4. cd to the pspell-.12.2/ directory

5a. configure with
    ./configure --prefix=/usr

5b. Or if you have /usr/local/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf file
     ./configure

6. Compile the libraries
    make

7. Become root, and install with
    make install

Gaim should now work.

This procedure worked for me on Fedora Core 1, running
2.4.22-1.2174.nptl and gcc 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1).

HTH

/mde/
just my two cents