Upgrade GAIM...?

[Trigger-X]

Hello,
I would like to upgrade My GAIM to the new verison. I have the verison that came with Linux Mandrake 7.2 ,and I was looking on there site how to upgrade it, but I didnt really understand it... I downloaded the .rpm file and clicked it and just came up with an black square ,and didnt do anything or install anything. I'm not very good at installing or upgrading things yet... but I would really like to learn too, and get the upgrade to GAIM. If anyone could clear this up for me I would greatly apperciate it. Thanks for your time.

[snowgod]

Hey: I'm assuming your using some sort of X rpm utility. I would just go to the console, and at the command prompt as root, type:
rpm -Uvh gaim-blah (whatever filename is)

I never had good luck with x progs, learn to use the console as much as possible

[Trigger-X]

Do you think I should just download the .src one and do the console stuff... but then I wont know how to install that way either...

[armando86]

Originally posted by Trigger-X:
<STRONG>Do you think I should just download the .src one and do the console stuff... but then I wont know how to install that way either...</STRONG>

Ignore the .src rpms for now. Just download the latest gaim from their site (make sure it's an rpm not src.rpm) and type rpm -Uvh gaim-&lt;version number&gt;

In case your wondering packages with the .src.rpm suffix are source rpms that you have to compile yourself.

[iresprite]

When I've downloaded .src.rpm files before on my SuSE box, and then went at it with RPM, it comes back with "action unknown" for the files that it tries to extract. This, of course, means that I can't get at those files. Doh.

Do any of you guys know how to get at the files? I mean, an RPM is just an archive of some sort. Hm.

Peace,
Iresprite

[bdg1983]

iresprite... The src.rpm's are just source code and by installing (rpm -ivh filename.src.rpm), you should find the newly created filename directory under /usr/src or /usr/src/linux. There should be a readme or other instructions for compiling or just read the section in the rpm man pages on the subject.

[Trigger-X]

Ok... I did that -Uvh gaim- &lt;version number&gt; I dont exactly know what version number you mean the new one or one I have now? Because I cant find the version number of the one I have now... and when I did that with it says -uvh command could not be found... This seems kind of compilcated...

[Jeepsta]

Make sure you are using a U and not a u

Example:

File name: gaim-0.11.0pre10-1.i386.rpm
At the command line type this: "rpm -Uvh gaim-0.11.0pre10-1.i386.rpm"

Note: Dont use quotes!!

That should take care of installing it. It "should" but the executable in /usr/local/

[Stween]

Of course its complicated -- i didnt have a clue what was going on when i started.

But what jeepsta says should work just nicely (just make sure you are in the same directory as the gaim-&lt;whatever&gt;.rpm file, or it wont work :) )...

If i could run kpackage or gnorpm i would perhaps give you an idea of how to use one of these (but both these apps no longer work on my system). Sure, the command line is a confusing thing to use to begin with, but becomes very powerful eventually.

Not that i want to overwhelm you if you run this command, but 'rpm --help' will give you a *huge* list of various commands you can run -- if you dont want to get even more confused avoid this!! But its a helpful thing to know that if you are running a new command line app and you dont know how to work it, running it with '--help' after the command itself should give you an idea of how to work it.

Also, a nice thing to know is that if you type just a part of a file name (remembering that linux is CaSe SeNsItIvE, of course) then hit the [TAB] key, the file name will be completed for you - that should cut down on spelling mistakes, especially when typing out version numbers for software...


:) :) :)


Let us know how you get on!

[Trigger-X]

Well... What I did is logged on in as "Root" went to Kpackage and then opened the file and installed and it upgraded it :) I couldent get the command thing to work for me for some reason... But I will learn that soon... I can't seem to find the plugins in for MSN and YAHOO etc... for GAIM they say they have them, but I cant find them on there site to download it... Do any of you know where it is? and by the way thanks for the tips on installing and everything I really apperciate it.