running AIM & Ymessenger, installing XMMS in Redhat Server 3
 

Hi,
I am new to linux (very interested to learn it)
I installed Redhat 3 es newly on my system and i downloaded aim-1.5.286-1.i386.rpm and
when i run it with the command

1)
>> rpm -i aim-1.5.286-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is needed by aim-1.5.286-1
Suggested resolutions:
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128.i386.rpm :confused:

2)
can u send me the URL to get Ymessenger for linux, i am able to find only rh6,rh7,rh8 and rh9 but not for server 3. which when run is giving errors.


3)
and when i run xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm
>> rpm -i xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
xmms >= 1.2.7 is needed by xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21
Suggested resolutions:
xmms-1.2.7-22.1.p.i386.rpm :confused:

and i m not able to get those dependencies on net. Please can u suggest a way or URL which will solve my problem.

I'm not redhat friendly but for the two first questions you can try Gaim which is a multiprotocol Instant messenging client based on JAbber (MSN, AIM, Y!, ICQ).

Did you installed the rpm by yum ?

For your xmms and the ability to play mp3's on redhat here is what you do. Grab xmms from a redhat mirror put the rpms in one folder and do as root from a shell:

rpm -ivh *.rpm in the current directory. It should install them and then your xmms issue should solved. If for some reason you still get the dependency issues then you may have to force it although I don't recommend it.:

rpm -ivh --force --nodeps *.rpm in the same directory as above.

For yahoo messsenger go to yahoo's site and get the unix version. That version is a bit crappy last time I used it did not have chat support. You can also use Gyach Enhanced which is very good and has voice support that actually works in Linux. Just be sure to get the latest version because the login issues with yahoo are fixed with that one.

As for aim. I would not recommend gaim. It's been full of flaws IMO. Try maybe a multi messenger app and combine all three. Maybe take a look at Kopete if you have KDE installed. Grab the source and go to shell and install "as root" like this, just copy and paste.

tar -zxvf kopete-0.8.4.tar.gz && cd kopete-0.8.4 && ./configure;make;make install && cd../;rm -rf kopete-0.8.4

That should get you kopete working.

Hope that helped. :)

Thank you Niels@debian and Jev-bird,
I am very late to reply, sorry 4 tat. But i finally came up with my own solutions,

1) for Aim, gaim is the command and it simply works. (after setting proxy server)

2) and for yahoo, i took the rpm from yahoo site as u suggested and run "gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-6.1.1.i386.rpm" n then run "rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm". It worked fine

3) for XMMS , i ran
1--- xmms-devel-1.2.7-22.1.p.i386.rpm
2 --- xmms-1.2.7-22.1.p.i386.rpm ,
3--- xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm
(and then i added gr8 skins with xmms-skins-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm ) ... and now i m set to work
gr8 on my linux

Linux Rulz

I have tried Gyach E on my Red Hat 9. And i must tell you its has great support for yahoo webcams and has chat support. athough idid a force install because of pygtk. The RPM didn' detect it even if i had it installed.t

I did what was suggested above...I still can['t play my mp3. I think i've associated my songs with the xms program, too. What is the icon supposed to look like? Mine is white with a blue music note.

Here is what I get when I run the rpm and using the force option:

[root@localhost xms]# rpm -ivh *.rpm
warning: user havardk does not exist - using root
warning: group havardk does not exist - using root
warning: user havardk does not exist - using root
warning: group havardk does not exist - using root
1:xmms ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost xms]# rpm -ivh --force *.rpm
warning: user havardk does not exist - using root
warning: group havardk does not exist - using root
warning: user havardk does not exist - using root
warning: group havardk does not exist - using root
1:xmms ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost xms]#

what am I supposed to associate the mp3 files with? I did the xmms file in the /usr/bin/ directory..

in the command prompt or terminal; Try typing xmms and press enter.
or
/usr/bin/xmms
or
/usr/local/bin/xmms
:)

markkruez...i've done that and just did it again for good ol times and it still don't work. Well, the app launches, but it won't play anything...i click play and another box comes up to select the song, I do and nothing hapens. Audio does work, however.

i gave up with the xmms. I'm working on getting the zinf working....i have to keep installing packages one after another.

here is where i'm stuck at...now. a you can see, it says I need "postun_ldconfig to continue, so I try to install the rpm that is suppose to have this(glibc-core), and as you can see it says their is a dependency...???
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[root@localhost xms]# rpm -ivh zinf-2.2.4-76.i586.rpm
warning: zinf-2.2.4-76.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 9c800aca
error: Failed dependencies:
libgdbm.so.3 is needed by zinf-2.2.4-76
libid3-3.8.so.2 is needed by zinf-2.2.4-76

[root@localhost xms]# rpm -ivh libgdbm-1.8.3-alt3.i586.rpm
warning: libgdbm-1.8.3-alt3.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID c1e23429
error: Failed dependencies:
/sbin/postun_ldconfig is needed by libgdbm-1.8.3-alt3

[root@localhost xms]# rpm -ivh glibc-core-2.3.3.200406160000-alt1.i586.rpm
warning: glibc-core-2.3.3.200406160000-alt1.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID c1e23429
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc < 6:2.3.3.200406160000-alt1 conflicts with glibc-core-2.3.3.200406160000-alt1
[root@localhost xms]#

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Also, some rpm's say ppc.rpm while others say src.rpm. Which one am I supposed to use? I imagine the src = source, right?

well, thanks guys/gals. I got it working...had to instal to alsta packages and change the output under prefrences for xmms to art...something.

For voice and WebCam support for yahoo messenger you can try gyach :
1. Download http://www.politicalcrossfire.com/te...nstall.tar.bz2 , and save it to your home directory (important!).

2. Run these commands in the terminal, in sequential order:
Code:

tar -xjf gyach-install.tar.bz2
cd gyach
sudo ./install