Gaim Encryption

[Andrew Zbikowski]

Depending on your comfort level with building software from source,
here is a work around...

apt-get build-dep gaim

This should install everything you need to compile gaim from source.

apt-get install stow

This is just a handy utility, I'll get to it in a bit. 

Grab the gaim sorce from http://gaim.sourceforge.net

Extract the source. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local [other options
here, see ./configure --help]

make

While it's compiling, execute:
sudo mkdir /usr/local/stow 
in another terminal. 

Stow is a nice little script that will create symlinks for you, so
that you can keep software packages seperate (in our example, gaim's
files will be under /usr/local/stow/gaim-1.0.3), but appear to be in
the same location (in our example, /usr/local). [More on stow here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/]


sudo make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/gaim-1.0.3
cd /usr/local/stow
stow gaim-1.0.3

Now do an echo $PATH. If /usr/local/bin does not appear before
/usr/bin, you need to edit your .bash_profile file. However, Ubuntu's
default path is set properly, so you shouldn't have to worry about it.

Just to be sure, execute:
which gaim

which should return:
/usr/local/bin/gaim

>From there, you should be set to build the encryption plugin. Just
make sure that when you run the configure script, you tell it that
gaim is in /usr/local not /usr. (see ./configure --help)

Also, you should file a bug report (most likely as a feature request)
agnist the ubuntu gaim packates at
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/bugs, kindly asking the package
maintainer to include gaim development stuff in the gaim package or in
a gaim-dev package.

-- 
Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us
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