Guest Ballz2TheWallz Posted December 16, 2003 Posted December 16, 2003 i installed mandrake 9.1 and i have been using it cause i cant install anything cept rpms and when there installed where are theey and how do i run them Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted December 16, 2003 Posted December 16, 2003 Which programs? Did you read the documentation? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ballz2TheWallz Posted December 16, 2003 Posted December 16, 2003 yeah like aim divx ect ect edit: it dosntent see onboard sound either its on a pentium mmx 233mhz with 48MB of ram Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FxXP Posted December 16, 2003 Posted December 16, 2003 You will need X to run that sort of thing and I highly doubt that X will run on a computer that slow with that much RAM without going *ooohh god swap partition* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ballz2TheWallz Posted December 16, 2003 Posted December 16, 2003 X? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted December 16, 2003 Posted December 16, 2003 X... XFree... XFree86... X Windows System... X Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolcomPimp Posted December 17, 2003 Posted December 17, 2003 X is your graphical environment.... Think of it like going from Dos into windows.... once you're in X open the binary in which you have installed from wherever the file is installed to or use a symbolic link... many programs can be started by just typing something like 'gaim'... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ballz2TheWallz Posted December 17, 2003 Posted December 17, 2003 tried gaim before Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolcomPimp Posted December 17, 2003 Posted December 17, 2003 (edited) try running /usr/local/bin/gaim Edited December 17, 2003 by VolcomPimp Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukmike02 Posted December 17, 2003 Posted December 17, 2003 Different distros put things in different places to find where something is use; whereis example, whereis gaim it will come up with a path similar to what VP said, the 'executable' is almost always in a bin folder somewhere. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Propane Posted December 17, 2003 Posted December 17, 2003 you want to check in places like these /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /opt/* those are a few more common ones Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ballz2TheWallz Posted December 18, 2003 Posted December 18, 2003 praise the lord it was in dir /usr/bin thank you i got aim running edit: now what do i do with tar.gz files to getting them unpacked to getting installed and running..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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