Psi 0.10

Forum: Apps
Topic: Psi 0.10
started by: mksql

Posted by mksql on Mar. 04 2007,17:35

Attemtping to become more familiar with Linux using DSL 3.2, and installing Psi 0.10 from from a Debian package is not proving easy with my current knowledge. The apt/Synaptic version is quite old. Latest through < http://psi-im.org > .

Anyone led a few pointers?

Posted by lucky13 on Mar. 05 2007,04:52

Quote (mksql @ Mar. 04 2007,12:35)

What you're trying to do with an application like that is, by way of analogy, trying to make a program designed for XP or Vista run on Win95. There are underlying programs and libraries that applications require to run called dependencies. They're not all interchangeable, and some of them conflict with what's already in the system.

Can that app be made to work successfully under DSL? Maybe, but it will require building in all the dependencies first. I see from their wiki that some qt3 dependencies, part of KDE's libraries, are required. That would make it a pretty hefty download, especially considering it's all for one fairly small application. And you'd have to ask yourself why you'd do that when DSL has other options (below).

DSL doesn't come with the dependencies required to run most bleeding-edge applications like that one. The Debian repositories, which you browse via synaptic, are divided into different sections according to application maturity: old stable, stable, testing, etc. The repositories set up in DSL are old stable. The applications in "old stable" will, for the most part, work very well with DSL. There are some that won't or require some tweaking, but DSL works best with those applications. They're not "old," and they do all or nearly all the same things the newer versions do.

DSL has its own repository, accessed via the myDSL browser (net section of your menu). The DSL repository includes a GTK2 version of Gaim (requires the DSL GTK2 extension), and the GTK1 version is available in Debian old stable. I recommend either of those since the former was put together with DSL in mind and the latter works seamlessly with DSL.