The reason why gaim fails on Fedora Core 1 is because the appropriate libpspell and libpspell-modules are missing. Right now there doesn't appear to be an rpm for this for Fedora Core 1. Trying the Redhat 9 rpm via Synaptic fails. However, it's quite easy to install. Just wander over to: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pspell/pspell-.12.2.tar.gz 1 Pick your nearest download site, and download the compressed tar file. 2. Uncompress pspell-.12.2.tar.gz via gunzip pspell-.12.2.tar.gz 3. Extract the tar file via tar xvf pspell-.12.2.tar 4. cd to the pspell-.12.2/ directory 5a. configure with ./configure --prefix=/usr 5b. Or if you have /usr/local/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf file ./configure 6. Compile the libraries make 7. Become root, and install with make install Gaim should now work. This procedure worked for me on Fedora Core 1, running 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl and gcc 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1). HTH /mde/ just my two cents
