Hello forum!
Recently I decided to switch to FreeBSD after many years on different operating systems (OSX, Debian, Windows 7, etc.). I went through setting up a usable install on a VirtualBox before committing, and managed this without any real hiccups. Motivated by my recent success and the relative ease of building a working desktop FreeBSD install I went for the real deal.
Most setting up has been unproblematic and I am mostly happy with my result so far. My main obstacle right now is getting pidgin to run, so I can connect to my im accounts. On the VirtualBox I just installed it from ports and signed in, no problem. On my second attempt however I have been unsuccessful and pidgin complains about:
I have googled for two days now, unable to come up with a solution and therefore turn to you for help. I picked up somewhere that pidgin has problems running encryption through GnuTLS and therefore use NSS instead (info was old, referencing FreeBSD 5.1, so not sure if still relevant), so I ported it with the SET=NSS and UNSET=GNUTLS flags, but no luck there. NSS, OpenSSL and GnuTLS are all installed from ports.
Running FreeBSD 10.1 64-bit, Xfce4.
I wanted to put some log file here, but being new to FreeBSD I am a bit unsure what would be relevant.
All help greatly appreciated,
T
Sorry if this is posted in the wrong subforum, I was a bit unsure where to put it, so please move it if so.
Recently I decided to switch to FreeBSD after many years on different operating systems (OSX, Debian, Windows 7, etc.). I went through setting up a usable install on a VirtualBox before committing, and managed this without any real hiccups. Motivated by my recent success and the relative ease of building a working desktop FreeBSD install I went for the real deal.
Most setting up has been unproblematic and I am mostly happy with my result so far. My main obstacle right now is getting pidgin to run, so I can connect to my im accounts. On the VirtualBox I just installed it from ports and signed in, no problem. On my second attempt however I have been unsuccessful and pidgin complains about:
Code:
Server requires TLS/SSL, but no TLS/SSL support was found.Running FreeBSD 10.1 64-bit, Xfce4.
I wanted to put some log file here, but being new to FreeBSD I am a bit unsure what would be relevant.
All help greatly appreciated,
T
Sorry if this is posted in the wrong subforum, I was a bit unsure where to put it, so please move it if so.
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