Alternative to GAIM

[Chris Aitken]

Fraser Campbell wrote:

> 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?

Ther website indicates it is.

> Run "file file.php", that will tell you if it's actually an RPM
> or not.

[root at p166 chris2]# file showfiles.php
showfiles.php: HTML document text


> 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.

[root at p166 chris2]# rpm -i showfiles.php
showfiles.php: read manifest failed: Success

Chris

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