Hi Heather There's a nice feature in Kpackage called 'Find Package'. On toolbar just hit the find button (or from keyboard Ctrl-F), fill in the name of the package and click 'Find'. If you don't remember the full name just type for example "gai" (no quotes) and it finds all packages whose name contain "gai". If nothing is found then it's not installed. If the package is found you can then check the properties and the list of files that the package contains.
Now that you have found the file (probably in /usr/bin/gaim) you can create a link to desktop just by browsing (in Konqueror) to the file and (mouse left) click-n-drag the file to desktop, release the mouse button and select "Link Here". If the search gives no results, just install the package. Open Konqueror, search the package you downloaded, click that file (Kpackage should start now automagically) select 'Install'. If you are logged in as normal user it will ask for root password. Type root password and hit enter: That's it. To verify that the installation was successful, use the 'find Package' function (refresh the Kpackage view first). Cheers J. On Thursday 07 March 2002 14:45, you wrote: --snip-- > Brian - thanks very much for your excellent step by step guide - much > appreciated! I followed the instructions to the letter, but what I got > at the console was a list of the various commands that could be used by > rpm. I looked in every single directory, and couldn't find the gaim > entry, and found a gaim directory in the usr/local list that was > completely empty! I am cursing with frustration here - and definitely > without a clue!!! Can you or anyone enlighten me? > Thanks in advance > Heather
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