I have been able to get java to go, been able to get firestarter, been able to get alot done, but can not figure out why or how to get gyach chat ckient or anything other then a java chat client to work? Any help would be nice, even a howto link on howto get apt-get to install gyach, I am willing to read up on it. I am completly new to linux and completly new to ubuntu and apt! Please help me!

Is the file gyach listed in the sources? Try 'apt-cache search gyach'. If it's listed it should install, if not listed maybe you need to add a source repository for it in the list file or install the source code for it.

I just found this thread in the BSD forum.

OK, I see that it is not in there so, how does one go about adding the repository or install the source code for it, Remember I am a complete noob at this sort of thing, i am just learning it all. Even if you have a link to offer me , That will be more then fine with me, and ty for your reply, at least now I know why!

I've never heard of this program until now but here is a link for it.

Keep us informed if you get it working or not.

Black.UCoD,

Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list.

Looking here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=57756, I don't see any .deb (Debian, MEPIS, Ubuntu) for it -- are you sure it exists in that form? (What Googles did you do?)

You may have to d/l & convert (alien) rpm's.

i see that one can not do it with apt-get, one has to d/l the file to say the home folder, right click, extrct here, then open a terminal x-window, cd to the /home/username/programname, then one can ./configure
make
make install
then the program works great, thank you all for your kindness and generousity in the replies.

got a problem installing gyach on my xandros box... what does this error mean:

DROS:~/gyach-0.9.8# ./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 for style of include used by make... GNU
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


also, how could i remedy this?? total noob here

Not sure if this hread is still open, or not. However, for those coming later, what this means is that you don't have the proper tools (c compiler) loaded. Although your stuff there did not show it, may also not have your headers installed for your kernel.

In short, you need compiler tools and kernel headers for many distros.