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Same thing, running rpm -e kopete-0.7.3-1 just hangs not doing anything.

Im fresh out of solutions then. Sorry

Try sifting through the bug reports.

Ok, Thank you for your time and help. I really appreciate it.

-SNT

Ok, I think I am getting somewhere. I rebooted then unistalled .7.3-1. That worked. It did uninstall. Then I ran kopete and I get 'command not found'. I ran through the install process again and I get the same error.
Any ideas?

-SNT

If now its saying command not found, then I would go ahead and recompile and install kopete, I would go with .7.4 though, since there are many bugs left in the .8 betas.

Well, kopete 0.8beta2 installs its binary into '/usr/bin/kopete', and thats not a path variable, I think.
So, in KDE, press 'Alt+F2', and type in this opening box '/usr/bin/kopete' (without the ' ). Kopet would start and shows you everything you want to see. :-)

To uninstall the kopete-7.3 rpm, try to type 'rpm -e kopete --test' in a console.
It will show you Error Messages or someting like that, if everything goes fine, type it without the '--test'.

Good luck,

liquidat

I tried both .7.4 and .8b2. They have the same probelm. Kopete not found. It seems like it is not being installed.
During ./configure I get these errors:
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configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the AC_PACKAGE_NAME lists. ##
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------------ ##
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During make, I get these:

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make[4]: *** [libkopete.la] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete/libkopete'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete/libkopete'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.8beta2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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And during make install:

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make[3]: *** [libkopete.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete/libkopete'
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete/libkopete'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.8beta2/kopete'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
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I'm guessing that the problems I am having have something to do with these errors, but, I have no idea. And as I stated before, I get the same errors no matter which version I compile.

-SNT

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'/usr/bin/kopete', and thats not a path variable

In Red Hat, /usr/bin _is_ in the path.

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configure: WARNING: linux/if_ppp.h: present but cannot be compiled

You dont have the development headers needed to compile a program using that module.
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/i…5.i386.rpm.html
This rpm should contain what you need, but it was built for fedora core 1, and I believe you said you were using RH9, sometimes fedora rpms will cross to rh9, sometimes they wont. Trial and error.

Ok, there is no configre warning but I still have the others:

make:
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/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lart_lgpl_2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libkopete.la.closure] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.7.4/kopete/libkopete'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.7.4/kopete/libkopete'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.7.4/kopete'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.7.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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and make install:
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libtool: link: warning: `-version-info' is ignored for programs
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lart_lgpl_2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libkopete.la.closure] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.7.4/kopete/libkopete'
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.7.4/kopete/libkopete'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/snt/Downloads/kopete-0.7.4/kopete'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
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After this Kopete is not found.

-SNT