Trouble installing Pidgin...

[Jean-David Beyer]

Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> I submitted the following yesterday but it never appeared. I figured out
> that this was probably because I was not fully subscribed at the time I
> submitted it.
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
[snip]

Was this the wrong forum to submit my question, or is it just too difficult
for it to be answered? If it was the wrong forum, could someone please
suggest the proper one?

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