Please help a newbie install Kopete 0.10.1
 

I deleted the old version through the Remove Software program but now I have no idea how to install the new version of Kopete. Can someone give me a totaly newbie step-by-step starting with the tar file "kopete-0.10.1.tar.bz2" please?

Hello!

This approach works on all packages ending in tar.bz2. :)

First of all open a terminal, by going to the directory where the file is (with Konqueror). Then press F4, and you will get a console. Then type:
When this has finished successfully, go into the unpacked directory with cd <directory> and type:
This MUST finish successfully or else you can't install this package. When it's done type:
And when this also has finished without errors, type:
It will prompt for a password. Type in the root password as you set it when installing your OS. Then type:
When it's done, your package is installed. If you encounter any errors, come back here ;)

Ok I have got this far successfully but when I typed "make" I got the following error:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop

in the directory there are three makefiles:

Makefile.am
Makefile.am.in
Makefile.in

Do I have to type something along with the "make?"

There was a configure file so I typed "./configure" and it did a ton of stuff but did end in the following error:

Checking for X ... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

What do I do here?

Hi!

The error you recived there means that ./configure can't find your X installation and thinks that you haven't got a graphical interface on your computer.

I haven't used Mandriva at all, I don't know where your X include files is. You can try:
This will produce a lot of output, try to look for X11, X11R6 or so. When you find your include files, write down the path, go to your kopete directory and type:
Try to look after X include dirs or something similar (you can go up and down by pressing Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown).

Any problems, come back here ;)

Oops, wrong distro.

Sorry for the deliberately unhelpful post, but Mandrivel(tm:)) has given me so many problems in the past, I couldn't resist.

The serious question is: have you considered using a Debian based distro like SimplyMEPIS or [K]ubuntu? Then you could use apt-get, Synaptic, or KPackage to fix problems like this.

You need to install the X-devel package (or something named similar to that) from the Mandrake control center - then it will work.

I just installed GAIM via "urpmi gaim" and it was so easy. I might try doing this with Kopete someday but GAIM works.