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hi im trying to install the kopete and my knsole isnt finding the file in which its in file:/root/Desktop/kopete-0.9.0 so can somone help me go through it step by step?

what does the error message say? where did you download it to? can you give more details on your problem?

no see i downloaded the file and i have no clue wut to do next i mean i go into the terminal and type in the configuration file but it says file not found

ok, first of all, what is the name of the file? we need to know the extension - if it's .rpm, .tar.gz, etc.

since you mentioned something about a config file i'll assume tar.gz.

Code:

cd /root/Desktop

tar xvvzf kopete-0.9.0.tar.gz

cd kopete-0.9.0

./configure

make

make install

you shouldn't need to install things as root and use the /root directory. usually installing them as user and in the /home/user directory is better. of course in the example above you should replace any names i gave with the actual ones. since i don't have enough info about your problem this is just a guess, so report back with more info.