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Hi

I am trying to install the 0.8.4 on Debian Sarge (testing), but I have not much luck. The apt-get will only install the 0.8.2 version, which has the Yahoo connection problem. So I need the 0.8.4, and as there isn't a .deb file for it, I went ahead and got the tarball.

First it failed to compile as I didnt meet the requirments, X dev, QT3 dev, KDE dev packages, etc. So I did a:

apt-get kde-devel

And that fixed all the requirements. Now I can compile, but it wont show up. So I realized I have to give a --prefix so that it will install it to the right place. I did a

which kde-config

And I got /usr/bin/kde-config

So I need to install into /usr/bin, right?

So I did

./configure --prefix=/usr/bin

All goes well, but at the end when I start Kopete, it is still the 0.8.2 version. The configure goes well, make make install all finishes with no error messages. But I still dont have a working kopete 0.8.4, that I could start somehow.

Please let me know if I do something wrong, which I am sure of I do, as I am a new Debian User.

Thanks a lot

Bence

p.s. I have kde 3.2.3, which is the regular version in Sarge at the moment.

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Original von cmbofh

I'm not so sure about that, I think the "bin" does not belong there. What does the command
kde-config --expandvars --exec-prefix
give you? On my Debian system it's /usr

And I would first uninstall the old debian version of kopete...

Hi

The command kde-config --expandvars --exec-prefix shows

/usr

That means, I need to install it with ./configure --prefix=/usr ?

I will give that a try. And I will remove any existing installs. Thanks

Bence

Hi

So what I did is as follows. Problem persists.

I did a updatedb and a locate kopete . Then I removed all files from /usr/bin and other directories. I removed them all, except the man and doc and htm pages, etc, and the locales. Of course this was after I did apt-get remove kopete. By the way, apt-get remove kopete also removed kdenetwork and kde. Is that a problem?

After having deleted all files and uninstalled kopete, I did the ./configure --prefix=/usr

It went okay. It prompted me to do "make" now. So I did make. It seems errorless, but it doesnt say at the end to do "make install" which was weird for me. But anyhow I did make install, and it did that too. No error at the end, but no "congratulating" message either. I did updatedb again, and locate kopete, but I had to realize that nothing got installed. I cannot see a single additional file since I reinstalled kopete and checked with locate. What might be my problem?

I can include all the output if it will give furhter info to anybody. Please help me solve this.

Thanks

Bence

So embarrasing. I just realized that I am using gcc-2.95 as I had to compile VMware which was complaining about gcc-3.3 so I modified the symlink of gcc from gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.3 and now I started again. It looks a lot better, and takes longer too. It definetally changed. I will let you know once its done compiling.

If this was the problem, I'll shoot myself.

Bence

That was it. WHoever has the same problem, here is how to go about it.

If you have the 2.6 kernel, your gcc has to be 3.3 as 2,6 kernels are compiled with GCC-3.3 (I understand, or not? )

So, do a

gcc -v

See if it is 3.3 If not, see if you have it under /usr/bin

There will be "gcc" and it has to be a symlink to gcc-3.3 not gcc-2.95

After that,

apt-get kde-devel

Untar the 0.8.4 Kopete tarball, go in there, and do

./configure --prefix=/usr

make

make install

Voila, you have your kopete working.

NOTE: I did remove my existing 0.8.2 kopete for the install.

Bence