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07-29-2003, 08:32 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Alaska, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 179
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Installing AMSN on RedHat 9
The file is here: /home/hubcaps/Downloads/amsn-0.80.tar.gz
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Download amsn-0_xx.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf amsn-0_xx.tar.gz
$ cd msn
$ ./amsn
or
$ wish amsn
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any help?
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07-29-2003, 08:42 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: IOM
Distribution: Slackware 10.
Posts: 194
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hey, goto where you downloaded it enter the folder so you see all the files and open "amsn" and thats your program dosent need installing.
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07-29-2003, 08:50 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Alaska, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 179
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Doesn't work!
I tryed opening it and selected to "Run" and "Run in Terminal"
What do I type in terminal to run it?
folder is located here: /home/hubcaps/msn
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07-29-2003, 08:55 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 4,185
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when you cd into the directory and try to run it, what error do you get? more then likely your going to need tcl/tk, but we'll get to that after we see your error.
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07-29-2003, 08:57 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: IOM
Distribution: Slackware 10.
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hello well i just unzipped it "because i dont use it" and opened AMSN thats located in the "msn" folder and clicked run not run in terminal, and its took about 5secs but it opened fine. if u want the copy i have then tell me and ill wack it on ftp.
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07-29-2003, 09:04 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Alaska, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 179
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I made a launcher and i get this error
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Cannot launch icon
Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/hubcaps/msn/amsn" (No such file or directory)
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command: /home/hubcaps/msn/amsn
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07-29-2003, 09:06 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: slackware
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you have to type
./amsn
not just amsn
and devboy thats how its supposed to work, but if you have tcl/tk issues then its not going to work how you explained it and you have to take further steps to get it going
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07-29-2003, 09:10 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: IOM
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ahh, i dont use it anyways i stick to ayttm.
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07-29-2003, 09:11 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Alaska, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 179
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Quote:
Originally posted by DrOzz
[B]you have to type
./amsn
not just amsn
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Little more details........
./amsn doesn't work
/home/hubcaps/msn/./amsn doesn't work.....
I'm still a noob.......
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07-29-2003, 09:21 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 4,185
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Q: How do I install and run amsn?
A: Just donwload the amsn-x_xx.tar.gz file. Untar it with the command:
gzip -d amsn-x_xx.tar.gz
tar xvf amsn-x_xx.tar
It will create a msn/ directory, and amsn is installed and ready to run.
To launch it, do:
cd msn
./amsn
or if this doesn't work, try
wish amsn
If wish command doesn't exist, then you don't have tcl/tk correctly installed.
If "wish amsn" works, but "./amsn" doesn't, edit 'amsn' file and set the
correct path to 'wish' in the first line. By default it's set to:
/usr/bin/wish
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that is straight from the msn readme file, so see where you get with this..
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07-29-2003, 09:54 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Alaska, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 179
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Quote:
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[hubcaps@localhost hubcaps]$ cd msn
[hubcaps@localhost msn]$ ./amsn
bash: ./amsn: /usr/bin/wish: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[hubcaps@localhost msn]$ wish amsn
bash: wish: command not found
[hubcaps@localhost msn]$ /usr/bin/wish amsn
bash: /usr/bin/wish: No such file or directory
[hubcaps@localhost msn]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost msn]# cd msn
bash: cd: msn: No such file or directory
[root@localhost msn]# ./amsn
bash: ./amsn: /usr/bin/wish: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[root@localhost msn]#
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any help..............
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07-29-2003, 10:06 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: slackware
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apparently you missed the part in the readme where it explains what the problem is when both execution methods fail
anyways no big deal, if you do in fact read it anyways you will see that it has to do with tcl/tk, so rather than scrambling all kinds of explanations and sites together i will direct you to a LQ.org members personal website where he has the instructiosn on getting amsn to work properly and he gives the links to tcl/tk etc etc...
so you should be able get it to work after this little "tutorial"
yowwww's website
scroll down the page about 3/4's the way and you'll see on the left hand site it has amsn printed in bold letters with the help content right beside it 
good luck!
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07-29-2003, 10:47 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Alaska, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9
Posts: 179
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OK, I can't find this file "tk-8.3.5-88.i386.rpm"
any help?
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07-29-2003, 10:52 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 4,185
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hrmm?!?!?!?
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get the red hat 9 rpm for TK here. I got this one: tk-8.3.5-88.i386.rpm
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that is taking directly from the same thing you are reading....when you click "HERE"
it brings you to the page, just like it says in the sentence i quoted....
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07-29-2003, 10:56 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Alaska, USA
Distribution: Red Hat 9
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LOL, I DON'T SEE THE DARN FILE!
any help?
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