Hey -
I just got SuSe 8.1 and have gotten the newest amsn, and I have no idea at all as of how to install it...If anybody can help me I need a step by step install being absolutely new at this.. so if want to reply to this one or email me at crab_2004@hotmail.com it would be greatly appreciated.

Thx

untar the tarball
cd into the extracted directory
type ./amsn

What????
That makes absolutely no sense

yes it makes plenty of sense, cause with what i read that you wrote i was at the understanding that you untarred the file ( in windows words, i thought you already unzipped the file ), cause since you dont' really install it, thats what i thought you were getting tripped up on, but below i will explain... ...

when you download it you extract the tarball (the zipped file)
so for a tar.gz file :
tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
and for a bzip file :
tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2

i gave both examples cause i don't know what type of file you have and you can use the proper one accordingly...
anyways after that is done, it extracts the contents of the file to a directory called msn, so you type:
cd msn
then when you get into the folder with the above command you type:
./amsn
and it will pop up before your eyes

Thank you for the help - Ill try that right away