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I am very very new to redhat and I am so lost and confused. I have been trying to download any of the IM's for redhat and I have been able to get a few to download but then I can't seem to figure out how to install them or if I even downloaded them correctly. Please can someone help me?
well yes the software for one of the Istant Messengers. I know we can't use MSN IM but I also have been told there are a bunch of others out there that will work and let you talk to others on MSN IM and that is what I am looking for. Did that make any since?
i use amsn. http://amsn.sourceforge.net/. it emulates msn messenger. i am running red hat 9 so i downloaded the rpm package for red hat which is amsn-0.90-1.i386.rpm. then i opened a terminal and typed
Code:
rpm -i amsn-0.90-1.i386.rpm
you can now run amsn from your terminal by typing amsn
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