[KOPETE]Installing Kopete

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Benediction

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Posts: 2

Monday, September 6th 2004, 9:51pm

[KOPETE]Installing Kopete

Im really new to linux. im loving it however.

Im not understanding how to get this kopete tar.gz file to turn into the shiny latest version of kopete. i have the version that came with my dist. but its 0.7.3 which is pretty old now id say.

if any of you could talk me through it (bearing in mind im new to nix) then id be really pleased.

cheers.
(running SuSE linux v9.0 on KDE 3.1.4 - im guessing thats pretty old too :-/) :?:

Benediction
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kofrad

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Posts: 6

Tuesday, September 7th 2004, 12:44am

I am assuming that you downloaded the source package. I would reccomend you download Konstruct, it is a program that will download the sources for KDE and all its dependencies and compile them, however it will probably be easier to use APT to update KDE for you without the trouble of compiling.

< K o f R a d >

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seb

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Location: Sydney

Occupation: Student

Tuesday, September 7th 2004, 7:30am

Yeah, the latest independent package from Kopete is 0.8.4, but it does not support kde 3.1.4. The best thing for you, would be to download the kde 3.3 suse packages from

http://www.suse.de/en/private/download/linuks/i386/update_for_9_0/index.html

It may be better for you if you want to download ftp/http from a local mirror to find one here:

http://www.suse.de/en/private/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html

Following that, install the packages like this:

[code:1]
su
rpm -Uvh kde-package-name
[/code:1]

And install the packages in the following order:
qt-3.3
arts-*
kdebase3-3.3.0-...
kdelibs3, kdelibs3-devel, kdelibs3-doc

and then however you see fit to work with the dependencies.

http://www.sebruiz.net/
http://amarok.kde.org

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Benediction

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Tuesday, September 7th 2004, 11:34am

Thanks for your responses guys.

Seb, i installed those packages. Seems to be running ok at KDE 3.3.0 ^_^

Now, my next problem....installing kopete.

How? which file do i run? :oops:

oh, and do i uninstall my previous version before installing the new?

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seb

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Location: Sydney

Occupation: Student

Tuesday, September 7th 2004, 12:20pm

installing the kdenetwork3-InstantMessenger-3.3.0-5.i586.rpm will install kopete.

If you use

rpm -Uvh

this will Upgrade (U) as apposed to install. Don't use the -i flag (install), use -U. the -vh just beautifies the output so you can see what is going on.

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