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Kopete Install Help For Noob (Probably Easy Answer)

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Thursday, January 15th 2004, 11:18pm

Kopete Install Help For Noob (Probably Easy Answer)

Hi, thanks in advance for helping me.

I am totally new to linux, and I installed my first distribution yesterday.

I am running Mandrake 9.2, and KDE 3.1.1.

I just downloaded Kopete 0.74, and I have no idea how to install.

my guess is...

./configure
make
make install

then what? Should the application appear somewhere?

Any help would be excellent!

Thanks so much,

Geoff

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Friday, January 16th 2004, 3:05am

The easyest way is to install from .rpm, try this:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/873827/com/kopete-0.7.4-1mdk.i586.rpm.html

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Friday, January 16th 2004, 10:15am

if you go through make and make install then you should simply type "kopete" in a shell, you could type "kopete & exit" to close the shell.

I don't know Mandrake but I think that kopete should appear into kde menu ( "Internet" or something sorta )

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Friday, January 16th 2004, 2:41pm

thanks guys, I managed to do it the harder way... ./configure, make, make install.

the key for me was ./configure --prefix=/usr
and kbuildsycoca

thanks for your help!