You said "because sometimes it downloads old versions" It clearly states on the AMSN site that (only) OLDER AMSN versions are in the Debian repositories, as used by Ubuntu (which is based on Debian), and thus by gOS. That they only release older versions of AMSN the oficial way is their problem!
You simple have been brought up to expect things to work like windows, and are trying to apply that to Linux, that simply is a bad habit! All installation methods bypassing the debian installer (apt-get with Synaptic as GUI) should be considered experimental, and if something is not working with them, you should ask the provider of the alternative solution why his installer is failing, and why he fails to to simply provide a repository with the current version. Yes, at the very least you should give a linux executable you have downloaded "executable rights", or Linux will treat it as a document instead of an executable, but that does not mean the downloaded executable (installer) will work correctly if it's programmer did not write the installer to work through the installer as it should have, but simply "dumps" files at several places in the filing system (some locations may not even exist, because of differences between distributions). It's possible for a software distributor to create a repository (or repositories), and put the latest version of his software there, so that the normal installer can use it, and he can use a "web interface" to start the installer, so why re-invent the wheel? You -can- get a "surf the web for software" way of installing, but what the AMSN people are doing seems to be buggy. gOS already has a messenger "pidgin", that can support multiple protocols, not only MSN. I doubt gOS will exchange pidgin for AMSN, but if the AMSN people get their act together it should be trivial to install the latest version. On 26 sep, 12:11, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a new user to Linux and started using gOS when the MySpace > version was released but found it very difficult to install additional > applications. I did all the right click tick permissions etc to make > the file an exe like in Windows Vista but it still fails. I don't like > this Synaptic Package downlander thing because sometimes it downloads > old versions. Can you not make gOS more easier in installing AMSN? or > release your next version of gOS with built in AMSN? > > Many Thanks > > Don Occhetti --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
