xFire alternative for OpenSuse 12.3?

dycide · April 4, 2013, 1:16pm

Hey,

I’ve been using OpenSuse 12.3 for a few days now and I love it. I’m no Linux expert, but I have used Ubuntu and Mint before. I only got 1 problem with Suse atm, and that’s xFire chat. Would be important for me to be able to talk to my friends on xFire but so far I have been unable to find a proper solution.

On Ubuntu, or Mint, installing Pidgin and the GFire plugin did the job, everything went easy and without problems. On OpenSuse however, after installing Pidgin I can’t install GFire, it gives all kinds of dependency errors. I downloaded the RPM package specifically for OpenSuse but it’s missing a lot of stuff. I’ve been trying to find all I can via Yast and Google but I’m stuck now.

Since I’m using KDE, I have Kopete instant messanger and there is an xFire plugin for it, but I would have to compile it from source somehow, tried it, also got stuck in the terminal.

Atm I installed the Windows version of Pidgin and GFire using Wine, and it works but it looks really ugly and out of place. Also installed xFire with Wine but it’s unusable.

I would be very thankful for any kind of solution and suggestions! So thanks in advance

knurpht · April 4, 2013, 1:36pm

How did you install the RPM. Mu guess is “rpm -ivh …”. If you use zypper instead, it will try to resolve the deps from the repos you’ve got configured, i.e.

cd /path/to/downloaded/gfire/plugin
su -c 'zypper in NameOfDownloadedGfire....rpm'

dycide · April 4, 2013, 1:49pm

Thanks for the reply!

Well, I just downloaded it from here: Download (the 64 bit one for OpenSuse), then double clicked it. So that wasn’t zypper then I guess.

I tried your suggestion and that’s what I get:

Loading repository data…Reading installed packages…
Resolving package dependencies…

Problem: nothing provides libxcb-xlib.so.0()(64bit) needed by pidgin-gfire-0.9.4-1.x86_64
Solution 1: do not install pidgin-gfire-0.9.4-1.x86_64
Solution 2: break pidgin-gfire-0.9.4-1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c):

I googled libxcb-xlib.so.0()(64bit) earlier btw, because the double click install also said it’s missing this package. Downloaded it but it says it’s missing libnotify, if I remember correctly.