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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Next adventure: Pidgin
From:       Meino.Cramer () gmx ! de
Date:       2016-04-19 18:09:26
Message-ID: 20160419180926.GC4731 () solfire
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Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@st.com> [16-04-19 19:52]:
> Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > Meino.Cramer@gmx.de <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> [16-04-19 19:04]:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> on the way to a hopefully working im-client with otr/encryption I next
> >> checked pidgin
> >>
> >> I set the use flags like this
> >>
> >>       Installed versions:  2.10.11(18:48:35 04/19/16)(dbus doc gnutls
> >>       gstreamer gtk ncurses nls perl python sasl tk xscreensaver -aqua
> >>       -debug -eds -gadu -groupwise -idn -meanwhile -mxit
> >>       -networkmanager -prediction -silc -spell -tcl -zephyr -zeroconf
> >>       PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4"
> >>       PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4")
> >>
> >>
> >> The compilation runs fine resulting in a pidgin executable which does
> >> simply nothing.
> >> Called from the commandline the cursor jumps from behind 'pidgin' into
> >> next line on pressing <RETURN>.
> >> Nothing else happens.
> >>
> >> What I am doing wrong here?
> >>
> >
> > Ok, one additional finding:
> >
> > sudo pidgin displays a starting dialog (account setup).
> > I did not proceed to not to "pollute" the installation
> > with root permissions.
> >
> > I checked the implemented groups but found nothing
> > appropiate to add my uid to.
> >
> > Remains the one question: How can I fix it?
> >
> 
> This won't help you much but here it works as expected: if I remove the 
> config firectory (~/.purple) and issue 'pidgin' from the command line a 
> GUI wizard shows up.
> 
> [I] net-im/pidgin
>       Installed versions:  2.10.12-r2(03:26:26 PM 03/22/2016)(dbus 
> gnutls gtk ncurses nls spell xscreensaver -aqua -debug -doc -eds -gadu 
> -groupwise -gstreamer -idn -meanwhile -mxit -networkmanager -perl -pie 
> -prediction -python -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr -zeroconf 
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_3 -python3_4" 
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 -python3_3")
> 
> 'pidgin -d' will print some debugging info, maybe you'll get something 
> out of it.
> 
> raffaele


Hi raffaele,

thank for your reply! :)

I also had that directory on my $HOME, removed it and TADA!
Thank you very much again!

Best regards,
Meino



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