independent source rpm http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235 and compiled and installed like so:
su -
cd to/the/dir/with/src/rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild gaim-0.73-1.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
rpm -Uvh gaim-0.73-1.i386.rpm gaim-devel-0.73-1.i386.rpm gaim-debuginfo-0.73-1.i386.rpm
and it runs just beautiful no segfaulting like with 0.72 , for whats new see the change log
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog
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