[SOLVED] Gaim (How to install)

[azadder]

I am a linux beginner, but I am dedicated to learning and staying with linux (deleted my windows partition).

Anyway, I am running LBA-Linux and I want to download and install Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net), yet I have no idea which package to download. I've read their FAQ, but I am still in the dark. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

[paj12]

First off does your distro come with Gaim already (ie. can you install it from the CD)?

If you need to download it, you'll need an RPM file. Since they don't have one for your distro you may have to try one of the Red Hat of Fedora ones.

[Icarus]

After doing some digging on LBA-Linux, it looks like it's RPM based so you could try one of the RPMs (Red Hat/Fedora most likely)

If that fails try the source at the bottom

With that it should be a fairly simple string of commands to unpack comile and install

tar zxvf gaim-1.2.1.tar.gz
cd gaim-1.2.1/
./configure
make
su
(enter root's password)
make install

Hopefully that is all you need to do, let us know if there is anything else...

[paj12]

I did some more research on LBA-Linux and it looks like it comes with Gaim already.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sot

You can probably open up Updater and install the packages. Here's the docs for LBA:
http://www.sotlinux.org/en/lbalinux/manuals/en/linux/updaterguideR2/

[azadder]

Thanks Everyone. I've got it up and running.