[TriLUG] updating gaim & associated libraries questions

[Morris Walton]

Hi,

I've had problems using gaim .58 with my yahoo IM.  I googled around and
discovered evidence that I need .62.  I am using RH8.0.  I tried
"up2date gaim", but RH indicated I had the latest.  So I pulled .62 rpm
off of the gaim site.  Of course when I tried rpm -Uvh gaim... it said
that I needed gtkspell:

[root at columbia rpm]# rpm -Uvh gaim-0.62-1.i386.rpm 
warning: gaim-0.62-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 883c1c14
error: Failed dependencies:
        libgtkspell.so.0 is needed by gaim-0.62-1

subsequently trying gtkspell:

[root at columbia rpm]# rpm -Uvh gtkspell-2.0.4-fr3.1.i386.rpm 
warning: gtkspell-2.0.4-fr3.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
        libaspell.so.15 is needed by gtkspell-2.0.4-fr3.1

I couldn't find an rpm with ver 15 of aspell, so I built & installed off
of the source.  However, it seems that the installation didn't
automatically update the new library.  I was only after I added
/usr/local/lib to ld.so.conf that I got it to pick up the library:

[root at columbia rpm]# /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep aspell
        libpspell_aspell.so.2 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libpspell_aspell.so.2
        libaspell.so.15 (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so.15
        libaspell.so.10 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libaspell.so.10
        libaspell.so (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libaspell.so

My questions are:
(1)Shouldn't it remove the libaspell.so.10 also?  If I should do it; how
should i do it?

(2)now that I do have so.15 installed gtkspell rpm still says:
root at columbia rpm]# rpm -Uvh gtkspell-2.0.4-fr3.1.i386.rpm 
warning: gtkspell-2.0.4-fr3.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
        libaspell.so.15 is needed by gtkspell-2.0.4-fr3.1

How do I get the package to believe 15 is there?

(3) gtkspell-2.0.4-fr3.1 - What does the "fr" mean?  french?

Thanks!

Morris