[SOLVED] pidgin won't install properly

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ptero · Post by **ptero** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:02 pm

i emerged pidgin (first i tried 2.1.0, then 2.0.2), but there's no executable "pidgin"!
what can i do about this? it's pretty strange.

djscribble · Post by **djscribble** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:56 pm

does /usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop exist?

also, can you emerge pidgin again and post the last couple hundred lines somewhere so I can see if there are any errors?

ptero · Post by **ptero** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:12 pm

djscribble wrote:does /usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop exist?

yes

also, can you emerge pidgin again and post the last couple hundred lines somewhere so I can see if there are any errors?

well, here's the complete log: http://rapidshare.com/files/49412167/em ... ar.gz.html

djscribble · Post by **djscribble** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:03 pm

Looking through the log, i found this near the top (line 494)

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Build GTK+ 2.x UI............. : no

You need to have the gtk or ncurses use flag enabled for a UI to be compiled per the changelog:

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30 Jun 2007; Olivier Crête <tester@gentoo.org> pidgin-2.0.2.ebuild:
Disable gtk ui if neither gtk or ncurses use flags are present

do a emerge -pv pidgin and verify that you have the gtk or ncurses option enabled, if not you have either of the 2 options, (assuming you use X) put gtk in the USE variable in make.conf otherwise, put the following line in /etc/portage/package.use:

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net-im/pidgin-2.1.0 gtk

and that should do the trick.

ptero · Post by **ptero** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:54 pm

well, the ncurses flag was active, but setting gtk flag active did the trick!
thanks a lot!