Ralph Bagwell wrote:

Hi Joe,

I have "gaim" up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger
programs.


Glad to hear it. Hope it works well for you, it has for me on the few occassions i wanted to use it.



I was never able to follow your instructions using "urpmi" - I tried :


urpmi.addmedia texstar
ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms with hdlist.cz

many times and never got it to work. I then tried another suggestion by
someone else and the file was available and was downloading for a couple of
hours until I gave up - it never finished.


That is odd, perhaps my (or your) email program messed up the syntax of that line (extra space in there maybe?) because it worked for me, just seconds before I emailed you.



Then I went to the texstar ftp site , downloaded the file in a couple of minutes and clicked on the file and it installed in another couple of minutes - all by itself -

Question is why is this not the preferred method of installing new
software - ? Am I missing something ?

Ralph


URPMI is usually preferred because it will find dependencies for you, a process that can be extremely tedious for programs that have many dependencies, unlike this one. Joe.




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