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Sep 04, 2006 02:43

After a great afternoon/evening with Mike, Michael, Kenny, and John (during which we had sushi, went minigolfing, and watched a really fucked up movie), I have spent the past 2.5 hours trying to help my erstwhile frosh, Steven, install Gaim-LaTeX on his new Ubuntu system. The worst part? It still doesn't work after all this effort. We have been ( Read more... )

frosh, plugin, john, sushi, kenny, steven, michael, gaim-latex, linux, mke

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hmcmodelt September 4 2006, 15:46:30 UTC

Stephen could always install Windows and then download AIM or Trillian. Both work prettymuch the first time with only a few minutes of install time. Windows can be a bit more temperamental. But he's a smart guy and can work around those problems.

hmcmodelt September 4 2006, 15:46:51 UTC

Isn't his name spelled Steven?

big_bad_al September 4 2006, 19:39:35 UTC

You're right! I have corrected my post. Thanks

big_bad_al September 4 2006, 19:38:01 UTC

Gaim itself worked fine the first time; that's not the issue. He's trying to get a plugin that lets you write LaTeX in your IMs and have it show up correctly, and this plugin doesn't even exist for Windows (though I doubt it would be too hard to port, if you're willing to spend a few weeks on it). Nice try, though!

macdaddyfrosh September 4 2006, 18:31:18 UTC

Works for me:

apt-get install imagemagick
Find tex2im (http://www.nought.de/tex2im.php has a binary that works on my x86 machine)
Stick it somewhere in your PATH. (/usr/bin? /usr/local/bin?)
apt-get install gaim-dev libgtk2.0-dev
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$(locate gaim.pc)
make
make install
Make sure gaim-encryption isn't set up.
run gaim, be happy.

I might have left one or two things out; that was a lot harder than it should have been.

big_bad_al September 4 2006, 20:00:46 UTC

I've always been curious. Do you know why Gaim-LaTeX and Gaim-encryption don't work with each other? I've passed your comment on to Steven; we'll see if it works.

macdaddyfrosh September 4 2006, 20:50:14 UTC

I just read that in the gaim-latex README, is all. A wild guess: encrypted text might contain the '$' character, and there isn't a good way to say "make sure encryption runs before latex runs".

Besides, gaim-otr is better, anyway, so it's a moot point.

big_bad_al September 4 2006, 21:24:07 UTC

Thanks for telling me about gaim-otr; I hadn't heard of that before!

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