Thanks a lot Joe BUT:O.K. sorry if I am telling you stuff you know already but...
I have the program running but can only get AOL to work. I have only two options AOL/ICQ and TOC (whatever that is) as proocols available,.
I was unable to follow your instructions on setting up the urpmi deal.
But I now know how to make the amsn program run - which gives me MSN use - although I have been unable to execute the program like I think you are supposed to - nor can I put an icon on the desktop for it - I do have an icon for gaim.
ralph
To become the root user open a terminal/console window and type: su
when prompted give your password for the root user/super user (su)
then copy and paste this line into your command line:
urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms with hdlist.cz
hit enter...
wait till texstar is setup as a source for urpmi
then type: urpmi gaim
After downloading, you will be told that: the following packages have bad signatures:
...gaim-0.64-1tex.i586.rpm
You DO want to continue installation, type y and enter, the signature is only bad because you don't have urpmi set up with the proper gpg signatures for this source.
Now assuming that works you should have the updated version of gaim ready to use, including the MSN protocol.
HTH, joe
I use a program called gaim to chat with people on MSN, it comes with MDK9.1 but i found it easier to install a newer version that had the msn plug-in installed (rather than mess around with the version that comes with mandrake 9.1).
make sure you have urpmi set up properly with texstar as a source, this page can help with that: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php
then (as root) type into a console: urpmi gaim
then (using the updated version of gaim you will find under networking/instant messaging in the kde menu) it is pretty fool proof to set up an account and chat with people on MSN (click on accounts, select add, choose msn as protocol, put in a user name and password, and viola!)
To get the icon on the desktop in KDE click 'n drag gaim from instant messaginge menu to the desktop. When given the option choose "link here".
From one newb to another, hope this helps. Joe.
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