Well, i installed

Apollon
Gaim 0.79

Both from RPMs but the prob is. Where can i find them? how do i know if they have been installed? there is no icon on my desktop...

Please no super advanced mega command line answers... im new... i can use the command line for installing programs but thats about it. im fairly new to linux...

if it helps im using, Mandrake 10 on Gnome

Hi!

rpm -qa | grep gaim
rpm -qa | grep apollon
that tells you if a packet was installed containing "gaim"/"apollon" in it's name.
I think you can start gaim simply with "gaim" and apollon with "apollon". after a restart of gnome there will be icons too, at least on my system they update after a restart of X.
Here's a little tip, write "ga" or "gai" and hit TAB-button, if the command will not be completed hit it twice and all commands starting with "ga" will be listed. You can use TAB on other commands too.

Hope this helped.

Boby

PS:icons will be in Kmenu [start-menu from windows]

thanks! i will try that, but it is the same with Gnome?

ok i will be right back then, im going to restart!

well, i restarted.. i still dont see anything there..

im going to see if i messed anything up...

so you can't see any new icons in the menu. what does "rpm -qa | grep gaim" say? is it installed or not? can you start it from the console?

when i type that in, nothing happens, no errors no nothing. its just blank

and no, i cant start it from the console...