Heather Reed wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:52 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms > > > Heather, > > > > No thickness or slowness is evident. Your willingness to ask "simple" > > questions is I am sure appreciated by many readers of this list. > > > > Anyway... > > > > The great thing about RPMs is that they know what to do with > > themselves. I find the easiest way to deal with them is to download to > > my home drectory and then in a console do the following: > > > > rpm -ivh name-of-app.rpm > > > > The ivh means: Install Verbose Hash > > > Brian - thanks very much for your excellent step by step guide - much > appreciated! I followed the instructions to the letter, but what I got at > the console was a list of the various commands that could be used by rpm. I > looked in every single directory, and couldn't find the gaim entry, and > found a gaim directory in the usr/local list that was completely empty! I am > cursing with frustration here - and definitely without a clue!!! Can you or > anyone enlighten me? > Thanks in advance > Heather >
Heather, I'll second your "virtual beer" to Brian for his exlanatory skills ! - However,if you can't find "gaim", maybe it's 'cause it isn't there ? Try this : at a console-prompt type : "locate gaim" (w/o the quotes). On my system this produces a lot of output, the gaim-executable found in /usr/bin/gaim. If there's no output on gaim, I'm pretty sure you can install it from one of the CD's "The Brian Way", assuming you prefer a text-only install. On the other hand, if you run i.e. KDE, just open the file-manager, point it to the "gaim-whatever-rpm" on the appropriate CD, click the icon and wait a few seconds for the "congratulation" sign to pop up ! HTH Kaj Haulrich
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