On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:08 -0400, Jason Wilson wrote: > Derek, > > Your explanation is MUCH appreciated. I thank you. This AIM package that I > downloaded was for Mandrake 7.2 but then again, that was a long time ago. I > didn't realize that there were other instant messaging programs that were far > better. I am now using Gaim and am very happy with it. And how would I use > "urpmi"?
urpmi is a command line tool that you would use in a terminal. The terminal is in K Menu -> System -> Terminals -> Konsole. Once you have loaded this, then you can type the command 'su'. This will ask you for a password. Type in you root password that you made when you installed Mandrake. Then, you can type 'urpmi <program name>' which will install the program, if it is in the urpmi database. Or, if you've downloaded an RPM from the internet, then you can type 'urpmi /path/to/downloadedRPM' which will install it. HTH, John Drouhard -- Wed Jun 9 21:48:05 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 ------------------------------ Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. -- Evan Davis
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