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11-17-2004, 05:37 PM
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Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Wisconsin, USA
Distribution: Kanotix, Mandrake, Red Hat
Posts: 85
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Installing new programs...
How do I go about installing any programs like yahoo messenger or firefox? I haven't yet even downloaded it yet so a site to get these at would be also helpful.
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11-17-2004, 05:44 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Savannah, GA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mythbuntu, ClarkConnect
Posts: 1,154
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firefox -- mozilla.org
-- it has a binary executable
yahoo -- messenger.yahoo.com
-- never run that
Last edited by secesh; 11-17-2004 at 05:45 PM.
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11-17-2004, 07:20 PM
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Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: CentOS6, CentOS5, F16, F15, Ubuntu, OpenSuse
Posts: 620
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It depends on what distribution you have.
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11-17-2004, 08:28 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Wisconsin, USA
Distribution: Kanotix, Mandrake, Red Hat
Posts: 85
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Mandrake 10. I got the firefox to install but dont know where it installed to. Want to put a shortcut on my desktop but can't find it. Where would it go by default when installing it. I have yahoo set up on kanotix through klik but don't know how to do it in Mandrake 10.1 community.
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11-17-2004, 09:46 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: Debian, Gentoo, OpenBSD, Slackware
Posts: 32
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Don't go randomly downloading packages and trying to install them. Most distros have a package manager that allows you to install packages without the worries of dependency problems. Mandrake's is urpmi(console)/rpmdrake(gui).
Check out this thread for more information:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=255330 |
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11-18-2004, 01:59 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: Slackware10.0,SuSE...
Posts: 24
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for all your chat needs
gaim.sourceforge.net
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