Thanks for the reply. I of course was going to download the other dependencies as well. Unfortunately, the system I'm installing is behind a firewall, so I can't use the yum repository directly - interestingly, your comment that Sourceforge is doing something funny helped out - I tried getting the packages using wget, and it worked fine.
Thanks, Scott On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Stu Tomlinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott, > > On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 13:49 -0400, Scott Lipcon wrote: > > I'm trying to download pidgin 2.5.8 for RHEL 4, using the URL > > specified in the yum repository script, and the file is not found - > > specifically: > > RHEL 4 actually has pidgin 2.5.8 updates available already: > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1139.html > > However if you still want to use our repository you should add it to the > up2date configuration as described on: > http://pidgin.im/download/centos_rhel/ > > Downloading individual RPMs is not recommended because a) it doesn't > guarantee you get all the dependencies and b) sourceforge's download > site tries to be intelligent and this screws things up (as you saw). > > Regards, > > > Stu. > >
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