GAIM goes Gold - 1.0 is released

[ewdi]

One of my fav all in one protocol messaging client has hit 1.0 milestone :)

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

version 1.0.0 (09/17/2004):
New Features:
* Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Invite dialog (Stu Tomlinson)
* Drag-and-drop buddy support for the Pounce dialog (Stu Tomlinson)
* View Chat log available from the interface (Daniel Atallah)
* Ability to receive offline messages in character encodings
other than ASCII (thanks to Nick Sukharev)
* File transfer status messages printed to conversation
windows (Dave West)
* Display file transfer messages when someone sends you a file
over AIM (Dave West)
* Handle MSN buddy lists more sanely (Felipe Contreras)
* Zephyr can use tzc to run from behind a firewall (Arun A Tharuvai)

Bug Fixes:
* Work around window manager stupidity with new dialog windows (Dave West)
* Compile with gtk 2.5.x (Gary Kramlich)
* Escape invalid characters in log names (Daniel Atallah)
* Fix for clicking add in an msn chat with 2 or more people in your buddy
list (Daniel Atallah)

[jayemef]

Very exciting. Thanks for the announcement. I'll have to try it out. Will this come with Core 3?

[ewdi]

not sure but they have fedora rpm available

[Ug]

I reckon it will, the cut off hasn't been hit yet.

[imdeemvp]

can you say yum update?

[jzke]

yep it works... however I have the yum.conf file with a few extra mirrors, should be still there. :D

[imdeemvp]

sweet....downloading as i type :D

[rogerd]

anyone have a link to a mirror i can d/l this?

[jzke]

If you have yum I suggest you use that, it's really easy... Open a terminal and type

su (followed by your root password)

then type

yum update gaim

it should do it all for you, if not, the latest GAIM rpm I can find is 0.82 here:
ftp://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/fedora/2/en/i386/dag/RPMS/gaim-meanwhile-0.82-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm

[bryantee]

Odd, says mine is at the latest version for both apt and yum.....

[imdeemvp]

i think it has not been loaded in their servers yet, i got same message that i already have latest version :o

[earobinson111]

Me to imdeemvp i get this msg
[root@user78-213 earobinson]# yum update gaim
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
gaim is installed and the latest version.
No actions to take
[root@user78-213 earobinson]#

[bryantee]

i think it has not been loaded in their servers yet, i got same message that i already have latest version :o
Then I wonder how all of these other people are able to get it? Maybe using some udnerground repos?

[earobinson111]

Who knows but i realy want it :(

[Turnip]

We'll just have to wait until an RPM is released for it.

[earobinson111]

We'll just have to wait until an RPM is released for it.

Well whats the difference between compiling the source or waiting for fc2 to come out?

[Turnip]

Do you mean fc3? Well, you could compile from the source, but I'd prefer to install it using an RPM.

[PeTzZz]

But I am such a man who can wait ... and don't even bother :cool:





:D

[imdeemvp]

i did a google search no luck so far......

[Turnip]

Give it a few days and I reckon someone will have made one.

[Finalzone]

If you have yum I suggest you use that, it's really easy... Open a terminal and type

su (followed by your root password)

then type

yum update gaim

it should do it all for you, if not, the latest GAIM rpm I can find is 0.82 here:
ftp://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/fedora/2/en/i386/dag/RPMS/gaim-meanwhile-0.82-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm


Simply do su -c "yum update gaim" on the single line. That way, you won't have to log as root though you only need to enter a password.

[earobinson111]

Do you mean fc3? Well, you could compile from the source, but I'd prefer to install it using an RPM.

no i am talking about fc2 there is no gaim 1.0

[Turnip]

Well maybe you badly worded your question then. Forgive me if I'm being stupid, but are you referring to waiting for an RPM for FC2 to come out, as FC2 is already out?

[earobinson111]

ok but i type "yum update gaim" and it says im current with version .82 but 1.0 is the current how i get ut?

[tchung]

Hi All,

I just wrote an article "HOWTO: Rebuilding Gaim source RPM package for Fedora Core" based on Gaim 1.0.0

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/gaim/

You will find binary RPM package for FC1 and FC2 at the end of the article.

Thomas Chung

[imdeemvp]

cool....time to play with it now....

[Turnip]

Good tutorial... I worked that one out right before you posted that :D

[bob]

Tchung, followed your tutorial and installed it, but Gaim still shows as version 0.82.1 when I open the program. The install goes well and ends successfully...but then, no 1.0? I thought that perhaps I had installed in the wrong directory, but 'whereis gaim' shows /usr/bin/gaim /usr/lib/gaim /usr/include/gaim /usr/share/man/man1/gaim.1.gz . Perhaps I've installed FROM the wrong directory? Have tried from 'home' and 'usr/bin' and, as you can see, usr/share/man/man1 (desperation attempt). I'd appreciate any suggestions.

[tchung]

Hello,

What command did you use to install RPM package?

I would suggest to use:

$ sudo rpm -Uvh gaim-1.0.0-0.i386.rpm

"U" which is an option "upgrade" will also removes older version.

Thomas Chung

[earobinson111]

but why hasent gaim released the officeal gaim 1.0 for fedora?

[bob]

Thomas, thanks - that did it. Brain was just foggy and didn't think of the 'u'.

[Turnip]

Because you're supposed to get it from Fedora, not gaim, and so it's Fedora's responsibility to make an RPM for it.

[earobinson111]

ok is there any harm to using this non fedora version? and when fedora comes out with an update to 1.0 will u2date catch it?

[SickFreak]

Why is it when I type yum update gaim the yum begins to download headers to update everything and not just gaim?

[Artemis]

wow it's working with yum. Great utility!!!