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You Were

I wrote this on the 24th of May 2006. I just thought it was time I posted it. It's not much but...

You Were

You were the friend who in my shell found a pearl
You were the embrace for which my body yearned
You were the beauty my eye beheld
You were the story my memory would tell
You were the melody that my song would sing
You were the voice that answered the phone I'd ring
You were the chef of the cuisine I relished
You were the reason I felt so embellished
You were the moon who called me your sun
You were the cherished of my years that were young
You were the softness my lips longed to touch
You were the tolerant when I was the grouch
You were the pillar when my legs were weak
You were the fragrance when everything reeked
You were the witness when I had no mask
You were the helper for every task
You were the silk my hands would caress
You were the joy of my being blessed
You were the comfort that let my guard down
You were the smile that cured my frown
You were the partner whose presence would nurture
You were the vision when I saw the future
You were the one thing that was inherent
Then one day I woke up and You weren't

Pidgin for Dapper

Hi everybody!

The popular Linux instant messaging program GAIM has changed its name to Pidgin with the introduction of version 2.0. I had been looking for a Pidgin .deb package for Ubuntu Dapper and couldn't find one. So instead of waiting around for one to appear I built one today from source. I have installed it and it seems to be working fine and it has 'adopted' the settings and accounts from the previous GAIM installation.

I would like to share this package with anyone who might need it. But first let me warn you that I am not an expert at building packages. I do not know what dependencies are required by Pidgin but I would suppose they would be the same as for the GAIM 2.0 betas. This package will not tell apt-get to resolve dependencies so I strongly suggest you install the GAIM 2.0 beta packages and handle the dependencies that way.

Use this package at your own risk!

Pidgin 2.0.1-1 for Ubuntu Dapper [Link 1]
Pidgin 2.0.1-1 for Ubuntu Dapper [Link 2]

P.S. Please let me know if there are any problems with the download links.

[EDIT] Installing the following packages should resolve any problems with dependencies. Copy and paste this command in a Terminal window... and run it, of course.

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev gettext libnss-dev libnspr-dev libgtkspell-dev