Can I install aMSN in centos 5.2?

edeamat · 03-06-2009, 12:12 PM

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

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

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.