Okay, I'm kind of a Linux newbie, I installed over 6 months ago. I had gaim, xchat, mozilla, mozilla firefox and openoffice for my progs...

A friend struggled to help me download/install gaim. I thought I could do it myself this time, but found out after much frustration that I can't. I've tried through console and urpmi through the configure>install software option. Neither way was successful for me. Last time I tried on console, I got this error.

Failed dependencies:
libnss3 is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2
libgtkspell.so.0 is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2
libnspr4.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2
libnss3.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2
libplc4.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2
libplds4.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2
libsmime3.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2
libsoftokn3.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2
libssl3.so is needed by gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2



I tried to download firefox, and it would stop and then I got confused at what it was telling me.


I can't seem to get xchat either...

I'm sorry for such silly issues, I'm just frustrated with it now, and about to throw my laptop out the window.

you need to install the following packages:

libnss3
libgtkspell.so.0
libnspr4.so
etc etc (see the pattern?)

you might try this command, should reoslve the dependency issues:

# urpmi gaim-0.82.1-0mdk9.2

what are the error messages associated with firefox?

It tells me no package named when I try that.


When I try firefox, (I just did it again and got a little further), I did the tar -xzvf ______ and it went through that, then I thought I was supposed to go with the cd thing, and then it doesn't do any of that right...

hmm... as for the gaim problem, make sure your root (su) and paste the exact output
as for firefox, let's assume the tarball is named firefox.tar.gz, is this what you're doing?

Okay so I got Firefox installed, pretty much...
On the setup, where you choose the destination directory... It keeps telling me "Can't make destination directory." for every folder that I try.

Be sure to do this as root.

I am, everytime I open up console to do something file-wise, I enter my password right away.


It's not working for xchat either. When I go tar -xjvf <filename> it goes through the file scroll like it should, and then when I go ./configure it doesn't work.

issue this command trying to install xchat:

# ./configure 1> XCHATERROR 2>> XCHATERROR

this will run the configure script, and sent all output and errors to a text file called XCHATERROR

paste the first and last 10 lines of that file

This is what I get everytime I try to install a file that requires ./configure


[root@localhost stephaniebeemer]# ./configure 1>XCHATERROR2>> XCHATERROR
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
[root@localhost stephaniebeemer]#

What that means is there is no ./configure script
I notice your in /home/stephaniebeemer
shouldnt you be in /home/stephaniebeemer/xchat?

a little breakdown:
./configure does this
./ = current directory
configure = executable
./configure = launch the configure in the current directory

Ok then when I did that, it gave me two blank lines....




when i tried to do ./configure on xchat again, this is what I got.


[root@localhost stephaniebeemer]# cd xchat-2.0.9
[root@localhost xchat-2.0.9]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
[root@localhost xchat-2.0.9]#

install GCC from your CD(s)
if using KDE:
Start->system->packaging->install packages
type gcc in teh search, and search by description
install GCC, G++, libgcc, libgccplus etc etc

I tried that and it gave me a huge box of all the files listed saying they could not be installed.

This is causing all of your errors. You need (read need) a C/C++ compiler on a linux system, it's crippled without one.
You might try downloading the RPM's needed, or even upgrading your distro to 10.0 - it's hella better than 9.x

Thanks so so so so soo much for trying to help me. I really appreciate it. I'm going to try and get either a different distro or 10..