Re: [Hampshire] installing AIM

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 19:04 +0000, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Mike Burrows wrote:
> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> http://www.aim.com/get_aim/linux/latest_linux.adp
>
> > Sorry Sir, did RTFQ :-) this is the package that I downloaded.
> >
> > aim-1.5.234-1.i386.deb
>
> The page clearly states that's for Debian 2.1 which was released 9 years
> ago. It's not surprising that there's library problems. It's always a
> problem using proprietary software packages supplied by a third party.
>
> To be honest, you really would be better off looking at GAIM which
> supports AIM and is a) packaged in your distro and b) released more
> recently.
>
> Tony
>
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Thanks Tony. wasn't paying enough attention. back to the kernel issue.
Cheers
Mike