FemmeFatale wrote: > > Gaim & Licq I believe are both hidden directories. > > So, do thusly: > > Open Terminal window > make sure you're in ~/home/yourdirectory > then issue a "ls -a" command *no quotes ofc* > > Then you'll see hidden directories. They start with a period. Like so: > > ./licq
Like so: .licq Sorry Michael > > HTH > Femme > > Heather Reed wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brian Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:52 PM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] installing rpms > > > > > Heather, > > > > > > No thickness or slowness is evident. Your willingness to ask "simple" > > > questions is I am sure appreciated by many readers of this list. > > > > > > Anyway... > > > > > > The great thing about RPMs is that they know what to do with > > > themselves. I find the easiest way to deal with them is to download to > > > my home drectory and then in a console do the following: > > > > > > rpm -ivh name-of-app.rpm > > > > > > The ivh means: Install Verbose Hash > > > > > 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 > > -- RELATIVES!!
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