GAIM on FC2

Beri, Rohit linuxlist at beris.net
Sun Aug 22 16:02:52 UTC 2004


Found it guys... Thanks a lot!!!!

don't know why but I was looking for an icon for GAIM instead of IM.

Thanks,

-B
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 08:46, Gary Allen Vollink wrote:
> I find gaim under "Gnome foot">Internet>IM.  If you are trying to 
> install a more recent version of GAIM (it was updated a few days ago), 
> then you need to use the upgrade flag for rpm...
> 
> # rpm --upgrade gaim-0.81-1.FC2.rpm
> 
> To find out what version of gaim you already have installed, you can 
> query for it...
> 
> # rpm --query gaim
> 
> If you don't use GNOME,   AND you can't find an ICON for it... the 
> executable should be installed under /usr/bin/gaim.  So you could run 
> gaim from a terminal window, or from a "Run" menu item (depending on 
> your choice of desktop manager).
> 
> Good luck,
> Gary Allen Vollink
> --
> Admin/User of Fedora Core 2 for a week.
> Admin/User of RedHat EL ES v 3 for 7 months.
> Admin/User of various RedHat dists since 1999. 
> 
> 
> Beri, Rohit wrote:
> 
> >everytime i try to install GAIM using rpm -i xxxx, I get the message
> >that it already installed. Since then I have rebooted the machine but am
> >unable to find any Icon for the same or locate the path where it got
> >installed. 
> >
> >any thoughts...
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >-B
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 





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