[HLUG] Ekiga/Gnomemeeting question

[Emon]

Hi all

I am newbie running Slackware 10.2 with KDE desktop. I have got Free 
Rock Gnome-2.12.1 on a separate CD. I trying to install ekiga without 
installing Free Rock Gnome.


SHORT STORY
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I have got nothing against gnome, but you see it is an entire
Desktop Environment with whole new set of (million) applications
for which I have no use.
I am no *power user* just an *ordinary user* who haven't yet
found the use for the millions of applications that is bundled
along with KDE (let alone Gnome).

I have installed ekiga & resolved all the dependencies (if want
to know how see the LONG STORY below) and I get this error..

jadukor at magic-box:~$ ekiga
*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08168620
***

So.. what am I doing wrong & how do I fix it??

Thanks in advance guys
Emon


LONG STORY
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First I downloaded and installed the following four packages
from <linuxpackages.net>

ekiga-2.0.1-i486-1kjz.tgz
opal-2.2.1-i486-1kjz.tgz
openldap-2.3.20-i486-1kjz.tgz
pwlib-1.10.0-i486-1kjz.tgz

For resolving Gnome dependencies I tried doing the following
steps

Step 1)

jadukor at magic-box:~$ ekiga

This would give me an error (probably) like libebook.so not
found

So I would do this

Step 2)

jadukor at magic-box:~$ cat
/somewhere/on/my/hdd/frg-2.12.1/libraries-repository | grep
libebook

as a result I would get the following

evolution-data-server-1.4.1.1-i486-1frg.tgz:
usr/lib/libebook-1.2.so.5.0.2
evolution-data-server-1.4.1.1-i486-1frg.tgz:
usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2/extensions/libebookbackendvcf.so
evolution-data-server-1.4.1.1-i486-1frg.tgz:
usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2/extensions/libebookbackendldap.so
evolution-data-server-1.4.1.1-i486-1frg.tgz:
usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2/extensions/libebookbackendgroupwise.so
evolution-data-server-1.4.1.1-i486-1frg.tgz:
usr/lib/evolution-data-server-1.2/extensions/libebookbackendfile.so


This would me a rough idea that I need the package
evolution-data-server-1.4.1.1-i486-1frg.tgz

Step 3)

jadukor at magic-box:~$ installpkg
evolution-data-server-1.4.1.1-i486-1frg.tgz



I kept repeating Step 1,2 & 3 until I got no errors (but
something else happened, I will talk about it later)

I ended up installing the following packages in addition to the
previous four

cairo-1.0.2-i486-1frg.tgz
cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-i486-1.tgz
evolution-data-server-1.4.1.1-i486-1frg.tgz
gconf-2.12.1-i486-1frg.tgz
glitz-0.4.4-i486-1frg.tgz
gnome-keyring-0.4.6-i486-1frg.tgz
gnome-vfs-2.12.1.1-i486-1frg.tgz
howl-1.0.0-i486-1frg.tgz
libbonobo-2.10.1-i486-2frg.tgz
libbonoboui-2.10.1-i486-3frg.tgz
libgnome-2.12.0.1-i486-1frg.tgz
libgnomecanvas-2.12.0-i486-1frg.tgz
libgnomeui-2.12.0-i486-1frg.tgz
orbit2-2.12.4-i486-2frg.tgz
pango-1.10.1-i486-2frg.tgz
speex-1.1.12-i486-1kjz.tgz(this one had to be downloaded from
<linuxpackages.net>)

To be absolutely sure I would do this

jadukor at magic-box:~$ ldd /usr/bin/ekiga | grep not

Since this did not show anything I assumed all dependencies have
been resolved.

One thing struck me though!! When I previously installed
"gnomemeeting" I had to install openh323-1.15.6-i486-2frg.tgz
But "ekiga" did not ask for that package. I am not an expert,
but I thought that was the main protocol which this application
uses!! So someone please correct me if I am wrong.

Anyway this is my headache now

jadukor at magic-box:~$ ekiga
*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08168620
***

And that's how it stays until I do "Ctl+c"

To be sure I also installed openh323-1.15.6-i486-2frg.tgz &
tired again, but got this

jadukor at magic-box:~$ ekiga
*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08169de8
***

END OF STORY   :)
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