Kopete problems with MSN

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Wednesday, May 25th 2005, 10:24pm

Hey Guys I am having one heck of a time installing Kopete. to be exact kopete-0.10.1.tar.bz2.

Let me explain what is going on here. I had an issue of not being able to sign into MSN Messenger using kopete. I too, kept getting the wrong password. Make a long story short, I tried installing the new fix or build as advertised May 23rd 2005 - Kopete 0.10.1 and Kopete 0.9.3 with fixes for MSN
New standalone releases of Kopete out today to help people get a fix for the MSN issue. Kopete 0.9.3 should work with KDE 3.2 and above. Kopete 0.10.1 should work with KDE 3.3 and above. Please note that Kopete 0.10.2 will now ship with KDE 3.4.1. I originally tired installing version 0.9.3 because I had KDE 3.2, again to make a long story short, I had to install many things and got it installed, but never could open it up or run it through command box or terminal. Upon doing all my update, I noticed my KDE was upgrade to 3.3 version. So I removed kopete 0.9.3 and downloaded version 0.10.1.

I can run the configure just fine, but when I hit make or make install I get an error message.

Good - your configure finished. Start make now

[root@localhost kopete-0.10.1]#

When I run the "make" command I get the following error:

[root@localhost kopete-0.10.1]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc'
Making all in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc'
Making all in kopete
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/kopete'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/kopete'
Making all in da
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/da'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/da'
Making all in de
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/de'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/de'
Making all in es
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/sam/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/es'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/es'
Making all in et
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/et'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/et'
Making all in fr
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/fr'
/usr/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./index.docbook
index.docbook:101: parser error : Entity 'traducteurPatricePawlak' not defined
&traducteurCedricPasteur;&traducteurPatricePawlak;
^
index.docbook:1878: parser error : Entity 'PatricePawlak' not defined
>Traduction franÃ§aise par &CedricPasteur; et &PatricePawlak;</para
^
make[3]: *** [index.cache.bz2] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc/fr'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/stan/Documents/kopete/kopete-0.10.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@localhost kopete-0.10.1]#

Any hints or clues on what I should do? I am running Mandrake Community 10.1.

Should I just give up and abandon the idea of getting kopete to work?

d-1

This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "dolphans1" (May 26th 2005, 2:18am)

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ajj3085

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Monday, May 30th 2005, 6:12pm

RE: Kopete problems with MSN

Here's how I got 0.10.2 to compile.

Edit kopete-0.10.1/doc/Makefile and find the line that starts TOPSUBDIRS=

You'll see alot of words, doc kopete po, etc. Delete fr, de, es, leaving only doc, kopete and po. There are documentation for other languages, french, german, spanish, etc, which you probably don't care about. NOTE TO THE KDE TEAM: If you detected an English system, (or Spanish), why bother including other languages in the documetation compilation???

Edit the file kopete-0.10.1/kopete/kopete/chatwindow/kopetechatwindow.cpp, and on line 563 type // before the 'm_tabBar->setAuto.. line.

In kopete/protocols/groupswise/ui/gwcontactpropswidget.cpp comment line 93, setShadeSortColumn.

Run make again, and everything should install.

HTH

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cavity

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Wednesday, June 1st 2005, 5:49am

I registered to thank you for the suggestion, kopete is finally compiling for me without errors.
I found that the line in kopete-0.10.1/doc/Makefile that starts with TOPSUBDIRS= only had the three words doc, kopete and po. The line SUBDIRS = had all of the other languages listed, and it was that line that was causing the errors.

Mr n00b, that's me

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dolphans1

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Tuesday, June 14th 2005, 4:09pm

Thanks ajj3085, I will pass your information on.
I ended up reloading mandrake with Mandriva LE, removing kopete and reinstalling the newer version of it.

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aka

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Thursday, June 16th 2005, 4:32pm

I'm curious, is it that difficult to make a programm, that will compile?? Without adding some C++ stuff to it's source, look at MIranda im. A perfect(!) IM for windows, unfortunalely not available for Linux.
Personally I don't like gaim, but kopete sucks too. I wasn't able to use MSN in fedora built in .9 version, and wasn't able to compile the scr for .10.1 due to fr stuff and some other like real cpp problems, some functions not defined or something.
Please, test the soft harder, or u'll kill the whole open source movement.