Gaim again

Question

hi,
I'm posting about this issue for the second time because I'm puzzled.
I did a clean install of arch, made a system update, installed gaim at it wont work.
this happened to me twice before on 2 others previous installs of arch.
then, doing a system update and reinstalling gaim solved the problem.
this time it didnt and I rather not reinstall arch again cos I already installed open office.
so I checked the complain was missing libpango cairo and I reinstalled pango.
then, checking the forum, I did as suggested in another post, the following:
"pacman -Rs gaim"
Targets: gaim gtkspell gnutls libtasn1 opencdk
Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] y
removing gaim... done.
removing gtkspell... done.
removing gnutls... done.
removing libtasn1... done.
removing opencdk... done.
pacman -Sy gaim
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
:: extra is up to date
Targets: opencdk-0.5.7-1 libtasn1-0.2.13-1 gnutls-1.2.5-1 gtkspell-2.0.10-1
gaim-1.5.0-1
Total Package Size: 5.7 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from current...
opencdk-0.5.7-1 [################] 100% 144K 35.8K/s 00:00:04
libtasn1-0.2.13-1 [################] 100% 90K 23.2K/s 00:00:03
gnutls-1.2.5-1 [################] 100% 823K 98.3K/s 00:00:08
gtkspell-2.0.10-1 [################] 100% 24K 8.5K/s 00:00:02
checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
installing opencdk... done.
installing libtasn1... done.
installing gnutls... done.
installing gtkspell... done.
installing gaim... done.
now, gaim works only for yahoo.
if I try gtalk it starts and then turn off, if I try msn, as before, it says it was disconnected.
what is the issue?
some library missing during the install? (I selected to install all packages)
I'd like to know how to solve the issue and, on the way, learn a bit more about arch.
thanks

Answer 1

ok - think ive sorted it. (including the non resolving work for reference.)
completely removed gaim via pacman -R
removed local .gaim directory, after copying the settings out to another dir.
reinstalled via pacman and checked / updated all dependant packages.
no success.
removed all again, downloaded the tar.gz file from gaim site. installed.
Same problems.
checked for latest gnutls from gnutls site and its 1.3.0 . Downloaded, untar'd, ran configure .... and heres where i found the prob .... i think
configure: error:
*** libgcrypt was not found. You may want to get it from <snip>
[root@localhost gnutls-1.3.0]# pacman -S libgcrypt
Targets: libgcrypt-1.2.2-1
< installed ok>
ran (/usr/local/bin/) gaim --debug
from terminal
gaim now functions with MSN.
i'd appreciate feedback, tuxman,  if just pacman -S libgcrypt sorts the problem from the stage you are at, without installing gaim from tgz files.
JGC, not sure if its a pacman / package dependancy issue but would be grateful of any further thoughts on the matter.
thx
kern