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progs on mandrake 9.2
Okay, I'm kind of a Linux newbie, I installed over 6 months ago. I had gaim, xchat, mozilla, mozilla firefox and openoffice for my progs...
A friend struggled to help me download/install gaim. I thought I could do it myself this time, but found out after much frustration that I can't. I've tried through console and urpmi through the configure>install software option. Neither way was successful for me. Last time I tried on console, I got this error. Failed dependencies: libnss3 is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2 libgtkspell.so.0 is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2 libnspr4.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2 libnss3.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2 libplc4.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2 libplds4.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2 libsmime3.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2 libsoftokn3.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2 libssl3.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2 I tried to download firefox, and it would stop and then I got confused at what it was telling me. I can't seem to get xchat either... I'm sorry for such silly issues, I'm just frustrated with it now, and about to throw my laptop out the window. :( :confused: |
you need to install the following packages:
libnss3 libgtkspell.so.0 libnspr4.so etc etc (see the pattern?) you might try this command, should reoslve the dependency issues: # urpmi gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2 what are the error messages associated with firefox? |
It tells me no package named when I try that.
When I try firefox, (I just did it again and got a little further), I did the tar -xzvf ______ and it went through that, then I thought I was supposed to go with the cd thing, and then it doesn't do any of that right... :confused: |
hmm... as for the gaim problem, make sure your root (su) and paste the exact output
as for firefox, let's assume the tarball is named firefox.tar.gz, is this what you're doing? Code:
[Steph00@localhost ~]$ ls |
Okay so I got Firefox installed, pretty much...
On the setup, where you choose the destination directory... It keeps telling me "Can't make destination directory." for every folder that I try. :( |
Be sure to do this as root.
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I am, everytime I open up console to do something file-wise, I enter my password right away.
It's not working for xchat either. When I go tar -xjvf <filename> it goes through the file scroll like it should, and then when I go ./configure it doesn't work. |
issue this command trying to install xchat:
# ./configure 1> XCHATERROR 2>> XCHATERROR this will run the configure script, and sent all output and errors to a text file called XCHATERROR paste the first and last 10 lines of that file |
This is what I get everytime I try to install a file that requires ./configure
[root@localhost stephaniebeemer]# ./configure 1>XCHATERROR2>> XCHATERROR bash: ./configure: No such file or directory [root@localhost stephaniebeemer]# |
What that means is there is no ./configure script
I notice your in /home/stephaniebeemer shouldnt you be in /home/stephaniebeemer/xchat? a little breakdown: ./configure does this ./ = current directory configure = executable ./configure = launch the configure in the current directory |
Ok then when I did that, it gave me two blank lines....
when i tried to do ./configure on xchat again, this is what I got. [root@localhost stephaniebeemer]# cd xchat-2.0.9 [root@localhost xchat-2.0.9]# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. [root@localhost xchat-2.0.9]# |
install GCC from your CD(s)
if using KDE: Start->system->packaging->install packages type gcc in teh search, and search by description install GCC, G++, libgcc, libgccplus etc etc |
I tried that and it gave me a huge box of all the files listed saying they could not be installed. :confused:
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This is causing all of your errors. You need (read need) a C/C++ compiler on a linux system, it's crippled without one.
You might try downloading the RPM's needed, or even upgrading your distro to 10.0 - it's hella better than 9.x |
Thanks so so so so soo much for trying to help me. :) I really appreciate it. I'm going to try and get either a different distro or 10..
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