Hello, I’m fairly new to Linux, but have been using it for some time. I downloaded a program called AMSN (got the .tar file) I saved it to my desktop, but when I try to install it, it says it’s not found on my system. I go to the command line to unpack it, then make etc… but it says it’s not found. Can anyone give me a hand with this? I’ve tried yast but no luck there either. I even click on the “install” program icon and that doesn’t work either. Thanks in advance!
HooLeeO
amsn is in Packman
If you have that repo, which you should
Just do:
zypper in amsn
from a su terminal
or just click this
http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_112/c6f308fa4421bfef0aa784efb5770cfc9a138176
Thanks. I clicked on the link you gave, but I’m running Suse 11. I get this message: cannot install in this version of suse.
I still get the message: The install link or file you opened does not contain instructions for this version of open SuSe
I don’t know why I’m having this trouble…My version is 11.0 from the install DVD. How do I check if it’s been updated to say…11.2? Thanks.
You said 11.1
Now you say 11.0
What the heck
http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_110/5545fb3508e7028161a88a79326f701d82b2dd50
i wonder if maybe you are running SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux version
11 (also known as SLED 11), or maybe you are running openSUSE 11.0,
11.1, or 11.2
that is four possible systems…to learn which one you have, open a
terminal and type:
cat /etc/SuSE-release
if you are running SLED you should ask in forums.novell.com as it is a
purchased system and has support there…
if you are running openSUSE come back and tell us exactly what OS you
use (from the code above), confirm you have packman enabled in your
YaST and then tell us exactly the error you get after trying to
install amsn with zypper or YaST…
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palladium
Ok, it comes up no such file or directory. I know the /etc directory is there. When I look at the install DVD, the cover says “openSuse 11.0”
Here is the info when I look at the system monitor:
Kernel Linux 2.6.25.20-0.5-pae
Gnome 2.22.1
PackMan :: Informationen zum Paket amsn
This gives a page with a one click install button that will add the Packman repo on the fly, select your openSUSE and 32/64bit and click it.
HooLeeO wrote:
> Ok, it comes up no such file or directory. I know the /etc directory is
> there. When I look at the install DVD, the cover says “openSuse 11.0”
as far as i can tell only one two things may have happend:
cat /etc/SuSE-release
that is, none/zip/zero/nada of the following will work:
cat /etc/SUSE-release
cat /etc/suse-Release
cat /etc/suse-release
cat /Etc/SuSE-release
Cat /etc/SuSE-release
CAT /ETC/SUSE-RELEASE
cat /etc/SuSE_release
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palladium
Did you copy and paste that code?
Try again
Post the result of this:
zypper lr
I did type it wrong (the SuSE part)
It reads out:
openSUSE 11.0 (i586)
VERSION = 11.0
–±----------------------±----------------------±--------±-------
1 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Non-Oss | Yes | No
2 | openSUSE-retail 11.0 | openSUSE-retail 11.0 | Yes | No
3 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.0-Oss | Yes | No
4 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.0-Debug | No | No
5 | openSUSE-11.0-Updates | Updates for 11.0 | Yes | Yes
julian@julian-ipj0bbtw:~>
You do not have packman set up as a repository.
did you follow Knurph suggestion That should install the package you want ans also add the packman repo.
I did try his suggestion and clicked on the link he provided. I downloaded the file, then when trying to install, I get this message:
Package /home/julian/Desktop amsn-0.98-21.pm.28.5.i586.rpm could not be installed.
Details:
Subprocess failed. Error rpm failed. warning /home/julian/Desktop/amsn-0.98-21.pm.25.5.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 9a795806 error: failed dependencies:
libfarsight2_0 is needed by amsn-0.98-21.pm.28.5.i586
gstreamer-0_10-plugins farsight0_10 is needed by amsn…
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad is needed by amsn…
tis is needed by amsn…
libgstfarsight-0.10.so.0 is needed by amsn…
libv412.so.0 is needed by amsn…
That is the whole of the error message. Am I missing some packages that I have on the DVD?
Just click this
http://api.opensuse-community.org/searchservice//YMPs/openSUSE_110/5545fb3508e7028161a88a79326f701d82b2dd50
First off, I would like to thank everyone who has helped me in this matter. I’m sorry for being such a newbie but I’m trying to learn. Now, I clicked on the link above, and it seemed to run ok (asked for the DVD). It created an icon in the applications list for me. I click on it and I get this message now:
There’s a problem loading a module of aMSN (TkCximage):
Loading TkCximage failed. This module is needed to run aMSN. Please compile aMSN first, instructions on how to compile are located in the file install.
Now, would this be the instructions that I saw which included make? The author referenced the amsn-0.98.1.tar.gz file.
This is a bug in the amsn package.
Reboot your computer
And try it again.
Is there any reason you need amsn?
Can’t you use kopete? or Pidgin?
FYI: You should disable the DVD as a source in Yast - Software - Repositories
It is better to use online only if you have a decent internet.
If the problem persists and your really want amsn, you should report the issue to Packman. I can show you how if you want.
Does PackMan have a bug tracker? Someone was asking me about that the other day.