[NBLUG/talk] fedora c1 and firebird0.7 and gaim0.75

[Warren Raquel]

Mozilla Firebird is a little tricky on FC1. I was only able to get it to 
work using the gtk2+xft version.: 
http://mirrors.kernel.org/mozilla/firebird/releases/0.7/MozillaFirebird-0.7-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz 
You may want to try moving up to 0.8 which has been renamed to FireFox: 
http://mirrors.kernel.org/mozilla/firefox/releases/0.8/firefox-0.8-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

As for gaim, 0.75 has been problematic recently if you want to use 
Yahoo. It just will NOT connect. It may actually be starting but just 
minimizing. check your toolbar to see if it is in the applet window. 
Also, try running gaim from the command line and see what errors it's 
giving you, if any.

Nat W wrote:

>I'm running fedora core 1 on a dell inspirion 2500.
>recently I was updating
>my system. I had been using mozilla firebird for a
>long time but I had never
>been able to get the flash plug-in running. So I
>decided to reinstall
>mozilla, which went fine, and then I installed an rpm
>that the flash plug-in
>required (it was a c library I believe) and then the
>flash plug-in itself. I
>run firebird ansd everything is peachy. So I log out
>of root and shut down
>the computer. The next day I turn the computer on and
>login to my main user,
>and both firebird and gaim wont run. I don't know why
>gaim was effected. I
>see the little login screen, and then it disappears.
>So I went back to root
>and tried running gaim and firebird, and the same
>thing happened with gaim.
>In both cases I hear the harddrive do something but
>firebird never starts
>up. I also tried running firebird trough the command
>line.
>
>Anyone know why these two programs arnt running? Also
>it seems to be alittle
>sluggish, is there anyway to fix that?
>
>-Nat W.
>
>
>
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