Trouble installing pidgin.

[Jean-David Beyer]

I tried to install pidgin today by following directions on your site.

In particular, I run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

It complained about missing stuff, libsilc-1.0.so.2 and libsilcclient-1.0.so.1

I downloaded and installed libsilc-1.0.so.2 which also included
libsilcclient-1.0.so.2. But when I again tried to install pidgin, I get:

# yum install pidgin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
rhel-i386-server-5        100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00
rhel-i386-server-vt-5     100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00
rhn-tools-rhel-i386-serve 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package pidgin.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Purple) for package: pidgin
--> Processing Dependency: libgtkspell.so.0 for package: pidgin
--> Processing Dependency: libpurple.so.0 for package: pidgin
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package gtkspell.i386 0:2.0.11-2.1 set to be updated
---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.1.0-0.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: cyrus-sasl-md5 for package: libpurple
--> Processing Dependency: libsilcclient-1.0.so.1 for package: libpurple
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package cyrus-sasl-md5.i386 0:2.1.22-4 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libsilcclient-1.0.so.1 for package: libpurple
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libsilcclient-1.0.so.1 is needed by package
<---<<< libpurple

Is this a bug in your yum dependencies, or must I load libsilc from
somewhere else to get the older version, or what?

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