failed dependencies with swaret?

[stinkoman]

i tried to install yahoo messenger via RPM, but i got a list of dependency failures

root@Linux_Box:/home/stinkoman# rpm -i rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        /bin/sh is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        gdk-pixbuf >= 0.8.0 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libX11.so.6 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libXext.so.6 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libXi.so.6 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libXmu.so.6 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libc.so.6 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libdl.so.2 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libgdk-1.2.so.0 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libglib-1.2.so.0 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libgmodule-1.2.so.0 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libgtk-1.2.so.0 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1
        libm.so.6 is needed by ymessenger-1.0.4-1

I thought swaret was supposed to fix all of these?

[daark.child]

What you need to do is convert the rpm to a Slackware package using rpm2tgz and then install the resulting tgz package with pkgtools or installpkg. Swaret only deals with Slackware tgz packages and not rpm. I personally would not bother with the old Yahoo package, Pidgin and Kopete are more up to date.

[stinkoman]

i cant figure out how to send SMS txt messages from pidgin

[daark.child]

Unfortunately I can't help with that one. I don't send texts via im, so don't have a clue how its done. Hopefully someone else will come along and help.

[stinkoman]

thanks, with yahoo messenger its just ctrl + t. but the rpm2tgz, is that the command? and how do you put that in? just rpm2tgz <argument>?