xchat for xandros

furball · 05-16-2004, 08:37 PM

How can I get xchat for Xandros?

sewer_monkey · 05-16-2004, 09:41 PM

Xandros is based on Debian, so your best bet is getting a package from www.debian.org or downloading the development tools package from Xandros Networks and compiling XChat from source.

vectordrake · 05-17-2004, 07:34 AM

furball,

I noticed that you have had a few qiestions about getting packages. Did you not just pay a lot of money for your distro? That $$$ includes free support. Perhaps the folks at Xandros can help you with that. Please share what you find here, as there are a few questions that others ask about that too, sometimes.

It'd be easy for me to tell you to add a debian mirror to you /etc/apt/sources.list with "main contrib non-free" listed, but, in reality, as with any of the Debian-based live-CDs, the minute you update your system, it'll break whatever's specific to the distro (don't read this as "ruin your system" - just break the stuff Xandros put in without sharing with the rest of the Linux community).

furball · 05-17-2004, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sewer_monkey
Xandros is based on Debian, so your best bet is getting a package from www.debian.org or downloading the development tools package from Xandros Networks and compiling XChat from source.

I did that, but when I compiled and installed xchat I couldnt run it. Any tips on how to run it please.

vectordrake · 05-17-2004, 04:06 PM

If you call it from the command line, what are the messages?

BTW, did you download the .deb from the debian repository and try to install it with dpkg? Does Xandros let you use dpkg? What did their customer support desk say about the issue?

furball · 05-17-2004, 06:59 PM

the problem is i dont know the run command. I am a linux newbie.

vectordrake · 05-17-2004, 07:14 PM

That's an easy one. Open a terminal window and type

Code:

xchat &

The "&" makes it a parallel process, so to speak, so you can actually open more programs (or "jobs") in the same termianl at the same time - its not devoted to that program. You can also type "exit" to close the window without closing the app. I use it when I install programs that are already in binary form, but come as plain tar.gz's_usually they get unpacked to my /home directory until I stop being too lazy and put it/them in a better place. Ig an app executes and there is no output in the terminal window, then its okay. If there is anything at all, likely its an error, or something. I'll show you. I think I have an app that does that. I'll post the output (which is easy to copy/paste with Linux - you highlight what you want and then simply middle-click where you want it dumped to - if you still use Windows, you'll be thrown off when you have to highlight, rightclick and select copy, rightclick where you want it and select paste):

Code:

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libxfce.so",

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "textures/Bronze2.xpm" line 182

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "textures/Bronze2.xpm" line 184

That's an example of what I mean. For a newbie, installing 4 distros? Not bad. You'll get up to speed fast.

furball · 05-17-2004, 10:51 PM

Thanx. I edited my sources.list and managed to apt-get install xchat. It downloaded 1.8.9 I have 3 links in my sources.list now. Does anyone know of any more working debian sources?

vectordrake · 05-17-2004, 11:02 PM

apt-get install apt-spy and see what's the fastest. The list is enormous. I'd try to narrow the search down to ones near you (or perhaps german or french ones too, as they seem to have fast connections there). There is also a people.debian.org site, I believe, where unofficial .debs hang out waiting to be installed...

furball · 05-17-2004, 11:11 PM

And what does apt-get install apt-spy actually do?

All I need is links to put in sources.list