Hi rishi, interesting suggestion. But no, i think i will stick to redhat for a variety of reasons. Comfort level and popularity (hence larger support base) being primary.
Also, the idea is to try and solve the problem rather than work around it and installing an entire OS for something like an IM would be overkill.
But I still appreciate your help. Its just that its not the option right now.
UPDATE ON THE PROGRESS MADE: Just to update people on the progress I have made. Heres what steps were taken.
[abhi@laptop abhi]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libaspell.so.10 aspell-0.33.7.1-21
[abhi@laptop abhi]$ whereis libgtkspell.so.0 libgtkspell.so:
[abhi@laptop abhi]$ rpm -ivh downloads/gtkspell-2.0.4-4.1.i386.rpm warning: downloads/gtkspell-2.0.4-4.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8 error: Failed dependencies: libaspell.so.15 is needed by gtkspell-2.0.4-4.1
[abhi@laptop abhi]$ rpm -ivh downloads/aspell-0.50.3-19.1.i386.rpm warning: downloads/aspell-0.50.3-19.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8 error: Failed dependencies: aspell-en is needed by aspell-0.50.3-19.1
[abhi@laptop abhi]$ rpm -ivh downloads/aspell-en-0.51-7.1.i386.rpm warning: downloads/aspell-en-0.51-7.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 30c9ecf8 error: Failed dependencies: aspell >= 0.50 is needed by aspell-en-0.51-7.1
[abhi@laptop abhi]$ rpm -ivh downloads/aspell-en-0.33.7.1-134.i386.rpm warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
=========================================================== After this I did try my own work around.. I tried to install everything possible on RH9 CDs (selected all) and ran rpm gaim once again, but i am still on step 1.
One piece of information though: 1) The rpm i am trying to run is from the PCQ linux CD where as Redhat 9 is my OS.
And ofcourse i also did a restart before retrying.. just in case...
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I also downloaded and tried to run rpm -ivh attym-xxx. Heres the output.
Error: Failed Dependencies: libaspell.so.15 is needed by ayttm-0.4.6-1 libcrypto.so.2 is needed by ayttm-0.4.6-1 libgpgme.so.6 is needed by ayttm-0.4.6-1 libpspell.so.15 is needed by ayttm-0.4.6-1 libssl.so.2 is needed by ayttm-0.4.6-1
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I know there's lots been said on this thread to help you with the problem but what I'm going to suggest is completely off ....
Move to Debian because of apt-get....
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