Alternative to GAIM

Fraser Campbell fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 4 21:45:26 UTC 2003


On November 3, 2003 11:16 pm, Chris Aitken wrote:

> The file is adevertised as amsn - rpm, but has a .php extension - I don't
> know what to do with a .php file...

Is it an rpm?  Run "file file.php", that will tell you if it's actually an RPM 
or not.  Assuming it is an rpm then just install it "rpm -Uvh file.rpm", 
Linux tools generally don't care about file extensions, file extensions don't 
generally have magical meanings as in Windows.

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