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hi everyone
i'm total newbee for linux actually. but i have a quite good backgroud win.. anyway my question.. i want to install a messenger.. i've tried to install licq without any success. yahoo messenger is working fine right now.. i've found something called kopete 0.9 .. which is some kind a all in one ??? i guess. anyway can someone please simply direct me about how to install it ..
file name is
kopete-0.9.0.tar.gz
thanks..
i'm total newbee for linux actually. but i have a quite good backgroud win.. anyway my question.. i want to install a messenger.. i've tried to install licq without any success. yahoo messenger is working fine right now.. i've found something called kopete 0.9 .. which is some kind a all in one ??? i guess. anyway can someone please simply direct me about how to install it ..
file name is
kopete-0.9.0.tar.gz
thanks..
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Hi,
As jdfox mentiones, gaim is another alternative. Also, it comes with Fedora. You can just install it from Fedora CDs.
Wesly
As jdfox mentiones, gaim is another alternative. Also, it comes with Fedora. You can just install it from Fedora CDs.
Wesly
Personally, when I used Fedorac Core 2, I installed Yum from rpm, then used Yum to install apt-rpm (or whatever it's called, yum find's the package and installs it for you). Then when you've got apt you can use Synaptic which is a great GUI front end.
This page -> http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO has some useful detail on package management.
To get you started, you should open a command line (eg in KDE use alt-f4 and type "konsole" as the program to run). Type "man rpm" and you should get some useful info on how to use rpm. If you do use synaptic, you'll find it very easy once you've got it going.
HTH
pbhj
This page -> http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraHOWTO has some useful detail on package management.
To get you started, you should open a command line (eg in KDE use alt-f4 and type "konsole" as the program to run). Type "man rpm" and you should get some useful info on how to use rpm. If you do use synaptic, you'll find it very easy once you've got it going.
HTH
pbhj
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Thanks to everyone who tried to help me.. Since i dont know much my way around, i understood that i made huge mistakes.. i've even tried to compile without a compiler etc... i made a better installation from the beginning right now and eveything seems to fine.. but i found your comments very useful thanks once again
It looks like what you have is the source code and you will need to decompress it with the 'gunzip' utility and then extract the files using 'tar'. Then you will need to follow the instructions to compile and install it.
I would suggest looking to see if there is a .RPM version available as it will be a lot easier for you to install.