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edeamat 03-06-2009 12:12 PM
Can I install aMSN in centos 5.2?
 
I downloaded the packages aMSN. But i can see two directories

amsn-0.97.2.tar.bz2 y
amsn-0.97.2.tar.gz

I've executed the next command:

tar -xvzf amsn-0.97.2.tar.gz

An then i can see in my download directory a new directory call amsn-0.97.2 but i don't know if my program is installed or not yet?

Can you give me feedback please.

Thanks a lot.

Total-MAdMaN 03-06-2009 02:01 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by edeamat (Post 3467100)
I downloaded the packages aMSN. But i can see two directories

amsn-0.97.2.tar.bz2 y
amsn-0.97.2.tar.gz
These are files, not directories.

Quote:
Originally Posted by edeamat (Post 3467100)
I've executed the next command:

tar -xvzf amsn-0.97.2.tar.gz

An then i can see in my download directory a new directory call amsn-0.97.2 but i don't know if my program is installed or not yet?

Can you give me feedback please.

Thanks a lot.
Is aMSN not available through CentOS's package manager?

What you've probably done is download the source code for aMSN. You'll now need to compile the program by executing

./config && make && make install

inside the directory that was created from the .tar.gz file.

John VV 03-06-2009 04:08 PM
edeamat first where did you download them from?
and did you do a yum search ?
Code:
yum search amsn
have you installed any 3d party repo's ?

more than likely what you DL'ed is the source code

to build source ( have you ever done this before ( on windows XP,Vista,... or on a mac)
there are two files in the source package that YOU NEED TO READ . They are called README and INSTALL
the basic instructions are in there . but just running
Code:
cd /path/to/amsn-0.97.2
./configure
make
su
make install
will in all likely hood give you a "maybe" working or not working program , if any at all . More than likely an error will be thrown about some missing program or code.


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