[SunHELP] AOL Instant Messaging (AIM)

[Rodney Sparapani]

One quirk does pop up.  If you launch gaim after openoffice v. 2.0, then 
you don't get the icons, only a version without eye-candy.  If you 
launch gaim first, you get icons.  So, what the heck is openoffice 
doing?  Is it changing the color palette to something that PNG can't 
support so gaim is switching to a bland setting?

Rodney

PS.  Does anyone else care about this?

Rodney Sparapani wrote:
> I had heard that gaim was the way to do AIM on Solaris.  Now that AOL is 
> offering free accounts, I decided to try it.  But, there has to be a 
> better way.  Can anyone see a short cut?  Here's what I found:
> 
> 1) GCC cannot be used; rather Sun Studio must be used
> 
> 2) I've got the GNOME Desktop v2.0 package from Sun installed in /usr
> 
> 3) And ActiveStates Tcl v.8.4 is installed in /usr/local/lib, but for 
> some reason the include8.4 files are not installed by default, so I 
> copied them to /usr/local/include
> 
> 4) From past experience with other GNU projects, a few other settings 
> are very helpful:
> CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh
> CPP=/opt/sfw/bin/cpp (from the Companion CD)
> CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/sfw/include
> LDFLAGS=-L/opt/sfw/lib
> 
> 5) GNOME requires libiconv and freetype2 to be installed
> 
> 6) Other GNOME libraries are needed.  GNOME Desktop comes with
> glib v2.0, but it doesn't come with the others which you can find @
> ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.0
> 
> You can run into trouble with two versions of GNOME libraries installed, 
> so I put everything in /usr (you will also need to install pkg-config 
> which helps configure with this kind of thing).
> 
> I think the correct order of installation was:
> libpng, libjpeg, libtiff (in dependencies)
> atk
> pango (there is a libtool bug which you can workaround by linking
> 	/usr/local/lib/libiconv.la -> /usr/lib/libiconv.la)
> gtk+
> 
> 6) gaim configuration was a little tricky.  With v. 1.5.0:
> configure --prefix=/usr --disable-audio --with-static-prpls=oscar \
> --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr --with-tclconfig=/usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 \
> --with-tkconfig=/usr/local/lib/tk8.4 --disable-perl --disable-rpath \
> --disable-nss
> 
> 7) gaim works perfectly, however, when I logged out and tried to log 
> back in, my GNOME session would die immediately and send me back to the
> login window.  So, now you have to do the following with GNOME Desktop:
> remove
> install
> 
> This last step takes about 20 minutes and should not be necessary; any
> ideas?  For me, that was actually the easiest step, but it is time 
> consuming.  After that, everything should work.  I found it best to get 
> my AOL account first and test it out on Mac or Windows first to make 
> sure everything was working, otherwise, you can't tell where the problem is.
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Rodney