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I'm more confused in regards to which download link I choose though. Mandrake - RedHat 9.2 & 10 - Federa Core 1,2,3,4 - Autopackage or Source Which one do I opt for? Jedi, this came with User Manager (KUser) & Kopete - that's about all I can see in the way of an instant messenging system. On Kopete it seems like I'm already signed - but I would have expected to sign in traditionally - a la msn and have a contact list appear....I'm really not sure. I'm still feeling my way about the thing - but it's pretty good. |
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Slogan, you do not need to download the package from gaim's site at all. All you would need to do is run 'sudo apt-get install gaim' as I posted earlier within a console. That will download the package specially built for debian/kubuntu and install it for you.
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Apologies, Kage. I got it to work. One problem I did have though was the entering the command and password bit - I had to copy what I wanted (the command and password) then select 'paste' via the terminal program in order to get what I wanted entered. It wouldn't let me type it in for some reason. Where could I find support for my sound (not working) and where do you get those commands from by the way?
Last edited by Slogan; May 28th, 2006 at 08:22 PM. |
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Oh thats not good.
try this in Konsole 'sudo lspci' Without the quotes. Paste output here. You could of just used Kopete. Settings > Configure > New To start adding an account to it. Repeat for as many different accounts you have out there. |
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The user commands (programs) in linux are stored in a folder caller 'bin'. The 'administrative' or 'root' commands are stored in a folder called 'sbin'. These folders are located at /bin, /sbin; /usr/bin, /usr/sbin; /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin; /usr/X11R6/bin, and /usr/X11R6/sbin. Each one of these programs comes with its own manual, you can read these using the command 'man <program>'. For instance, 'man ifconfig' will display the manual on using the ifconfig utility, which is essentially the linux-equivalent of ipconfig in Win32/dos. For more information on man, you can view the manual using 'man man'. For more information on linux commands, check here: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/ |
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Cheers, Kage.
I have a lot to learn. |
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google linux: http://www.google.com/linux
the great thing about linux is that there's a 90% chance that whatever you want to know has already been asked before. |
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As to your sound problem, I encountered this when I originally started using Linux. I pulled my hair out for months installing and uninstalling ALSA and experimenting with open sound and could not get the informatiional messaging to confirm that sound was there. It occured to me after a while that I had never actually tried the sound. So, I went into the control panel in KDE selected sound and ran a test of the sound system. This is where I say "DUH". It worked. It should be noted that the system was still telling me that that it could not connect to the sound server. The point is maybe you should try the same thing. If you get an error under ALSA, try open sound and vice versa.
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