[kde-linux] Kopete

[Jim Philips]

On Monday 08 January 2007 11:22, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 08 January 2007 11:48, Jim Philips wrote:
> > Keith Powell wrote:
> > > Is there any news of Kopete having sound, for audio and video
> > > chatting? At the moment, it is only video and keyboard. But I would
> > > rather talk!
> > >
> > > The only thing I use XP for, is Live Messenger. If Kopete had audio, I
> > > could throw XP away!
> > >
> > > I have looked on the Kopete-devel list, but the only postings
> > > referring to this are about 6 months old.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Keith
> >
> > As I recall, the latest version of Kopete has that stuff built in. Check
> > for your distro here:
> >
> > http://kopete.kde.org/releases.php
>
> For Fedora, then, I assume that means building from the source file.  What
> happens if I try to do that when I have an older version of kopete
> installed? whatprovides tells me that it came from kdenetwork.  Do I have
> to remove the whole of that?

You should be able to build Kopete separately and install it over the version 
that came with Kdenetwork. I don't know much about building on Fedora, 
though.